Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the family Ixodidæ.
- Resembling or belonging to the family Ixodidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a member of the
Ixodidae , a family of ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of various
ticks of the familyIxodidae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
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Examples
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According to this article, ixodid ticks Ixodidae are common on these turtles.
Turtle and its hitchhiker AYDIN 2007
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According to this article, ixodid ticks Ixodidae are common on these turtles.
Archive 2007-06-01 AYDIN 2007
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All of the 32 members of the Nairovirus genus are transmitted by argasid or ixodid ticks, but only three have been implicated as causes of human disease: the Dugbe and Nairobi sheep viruses, and CCHF, which is the most important human pathogen amongst them.
Chapter 2 1998
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Both Theileria parasites are transmitted by ixodid ticks, causing fatal cattle diseases in large parts of Africa and Asia, respectively.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jacqueline Schmuckli-Maurer et al. 2009
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Most ixodid matings take place on the host, and only after attachment, but there are exceptions in the genus Ixodes, where in some species mating can take place prior to attachment to the host.
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