Definition of 'black-legged tick'

Noun

1. 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)
      Synonyms: Ixodes scapularis

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