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black-legged tick

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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun 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)

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. hard tick
  2. ixodid

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