Search Result：black-legged tick
black-legged tick 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun black-legged_tick
The noun black-legged tick has 1 sense
- Ixodes scapularis, black-legged tick -- (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))