BLACK-LEGGED TICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black-legged tick mean? 

• BLACK-LEGGED TICK (noun)
  The noun BLACK-LEGGED TICK has 1 sense:

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)

  Familiarity information: BLACK-LEGGED TICK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK-LEGGED TICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black-legged tick; Ixodes scapularis

Hypernyms ("black-legged tick" is a kind of...):

hard tick; ixodid (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)

Holonyms ("black-legged tick" is a member of...):

genus Ixodes; Ixodes (type genus of the family Ixodidae)

 Context examples 

The group also is assessing how viruses grow in cells of the cultured tick midgut to help identify different viruses that can grow in black-legged ticks.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

In examining the molecular interactions between black-legged ticks and mammals, the NIAID scientists have learned that flaviviruses reproduce in specific locations in tick salivary gland cultures.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

Tick salivary glands usually block transmission, but a new study conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health focuses on the role of salivary glands in spreading flaviviruses from black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) to mammals.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)