western black-legged tick

Noun western black-legged tick has 1 sense

• western black-legged tick(n = noun.animal) ixodes pacificus - a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California;
is a kind of hard tick, ixodid
is a member of genus ixodes, ixodes