hard tick
English Thesaurus
1. ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | tick, |
| definition | : | any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | deer tick, ixodes dammini, |
| definition | : | a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ixodes neotomae, |
| definition | : | a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ixodes pacificus, western black-legged tick, |
| definition | : | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | black-legged tick, ixodes scapularis, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ixodes ricinus, sheep tick, sheep-tick, |
| definition | : | parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ixodes persulcatus, |
| definition | : | bites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ixodes dentatus, |
| definition | : | usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ixodes spinipalpis, |
| definition | : | usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats (noun.animal) |
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