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; Array
is a kind of hard tick, ixodid
is a member of genus ixodes, ixodes