black-legged tick
noun
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Sense 1 noun
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)
Types & categories
- hard tick hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Ixodes member holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Ixodes |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hard tick |