Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun western_black-legged_tick

1 sense of western black-legged tick

Sense 1
Ixodes pacificus, western black-legged tick -- (a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California)
       => hard tick, ixodid -- (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)