black-legged tick

Noun black-legged tick has 1 sense

• black-legged tick(n = noun.animal) ixodes scapularis - 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);
is a kind of hard tick, ixodid
is a member of genus ixodes, ixodes