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Definition of Deer tick
1. Noun. A northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis.
Generic synonyms: Hard Tick, Ixodid
Group relationships: Genus Ixodes, Ixodes
Definition of Deer tick
1. Noun. A hard-bodied tick of the scientific name ''Ixodes scapularis'' of the eastern and northern Midwestern United States. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deer Tick
Literary usage of Deer tick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. At Home in the Wilderness: Being Full Instructions how to Get Along, and to by John Keast Lord (1867)
"... Trumpet-flies—Jack- Spaniards—Stone-Wasps—Rattle-Snake Bites—A use for the
Rattle—The Trap-door Spider—The Deer-tick—Leeches in the Mouth. ..."
2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"A fourth species, the so-called deer tick ... and the deer tick which can cast
its wings, to the sheep tick which has entirely lost these organs. ..."
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