black-legged tick

noun

A deer tick (Ixodes scapularis).

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Ixodes scapularis
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Meanings

nounblack-legged tick (plural black-legged ticks)

plural black-legged ticks

  1. A deer tick (Ixodes scapularis).

Synonyms & antonyms

nounparasitic 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)

Similar
Ixodes scapularis
Broader
hard tickixodid
Also see
deer tick

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

black-legged tick. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black-legged%20tick

MLA

“black-legged tick.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black-legged%20tick. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black-legged tick,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black-legged%20tick.

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