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Ixodes (gcide) | Ixodes \Ix*o"des\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? like birdlime; ? birdlime
+ e'i^dos form.] (Zool.)
A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species
of ticks. See Tick, the insect.
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Ixodes unipunctata (gcide) | Wood tick \Wood" tick`\ (Zool.)
Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes
whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves
upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in
contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they
often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the
Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata.
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genus ixodes (wn) | genus Ixodes
n 1: type genus of the family Ixodidae [syn: Ixodes, {genus
Ixodes}] |
ixodes dammini (wn) | Ixodes dammini
n 1: a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as
Ixodes scapularis [syn: Ixodes dammini, deer tick] |
ixodes dentatus (wn) | Ixodes dentatus
n 1: usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease
spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats |
ixodes neotomae (wn) | Ixodes neotomae
n 1: a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme
disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats |
ixodes pacificus (wn) | Ixodes pacificus
n 1: a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites
humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United
States especially northern California [syn: {Ixodes
pacificus}, western black-legged tick] |
ixodes persulcatus (wn) | Ixodes persulcatus
n 1: bites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete |
ixodes ricinus (wn) | Ixodes ricinus
n 1: 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 [syn:
sheep-tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus] |
ixodes scapularis (wn) | Ixodes scapularis
n 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) [syn: {Ixodes
scapularis}, black-legged tick] |
ixodes spinipalpis (wn) | Ixodes spinipalpis
n 1: usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease
spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats |