WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does western black-legged tick mean? 

• WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK (noun)
  The noun WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK has 1 sense:

1. a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California

  Familiarity information: WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ixodes pacificus; western black-legged tick

Hypernyms ("western black-legged tick" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("western black-legged tick" is a member of...):

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