ixodes ricinus

Noun ixodes ricinus has 1 sense

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