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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick);
[syn: Ixodes scapularis, black-legged tick]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

black-legged tick
    n 1: parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans;
         principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States
         (especially New England); northern form was for a time
         known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick) [syn: Ixodes
         scapularis, black-legged tick]