"deer tick" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: deer ticks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} deer tick (plural deer ticks)
  1. A hard-bodied tick, Ixodes scapularis, of the eastern and northern Midwestern United States, one of four species of tick that is carrier of Lyme disease. Wikipedia link: deer tick Categories (lifeform): Ticks Synonyms (Ixodes scapularis): black-legged tick Coordinate_terms (carriers of Lyme disease): sheep tick, castor bean tick, Ixodes ricinus (english: western Eurasia), taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus [China], western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus [North-America, Western] Translations (hard-bodied tick): Hirschzecke [feminine] (German)

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