Search Result for "ixodes_ricinus":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
[syn: sheep-tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Ixodes ricinus n 1: 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 [syn: sheep-tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus]