IXODES SCAPULARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ixodes scapularis mean? 

• IXODES SCAPULARIS (noun)
  The noun IXODES SCAPULARIS has 1 sense:

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)

  Familiarity information: IXODES SCAPULARIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IXODES SCAPULARIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black-legged tick; Ixodes scapularis

Hypernyms ("Ixodes scapularis" is a kind of...):

hard tick; ixodid (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)

Holonyms ("Ixodes scapularis" is a member of...):

genus Ixodes; Ixodes (type genus of the family Ixodidae)

 Context examples 

Tick salivary glands usually block transmission, but a new study conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health focuses on the role of salivary glands in spreading flaviviruses from black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) to mammals.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)