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WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK

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

1. 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.

• WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

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)

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