IXODES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ixodes mean? 

• IXODES (noun)
  The noun IXODES has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the family Ixodidae

  Familiarity information: IXODES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IXODES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Ixodidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Ixodes; Ixodes

Hypernyms ("Ixodes" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Ixodes"):

deer tick; Ixodes dammini (a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis)

Ixodes neotomae (a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats)

Ixodes pacificus; western black-legged tick (a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California)

black-legged tick; Ixodes scapularis (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))

Ixodes ricinus; 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)

Ixodes persulcatus (bites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete)

Ixodes dentatus; Ixodes spinipalpis (usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats)

Holonyms ("Ixodes" is a member of...):

family Ixodidae; Ixodidae (hard ticks)

 Context examples 

We cannot do less than call it Ixodes Maloni.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)