Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ixodes_ricinus

1 sense of ixodes ricinus

Sense 1
sheep-tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus -- (parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete)
       => hard tick, ixodid -- (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)