Definition of Deer tick

1. Noun. A northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis.

Exact synonyms: Ixodes Dammini
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

deer-skins
deer fern
deer fly
deer fly fever
deer hunt
deer hunter
deer hunting
deer in the headlights
deer ked
deer meat
deer mouse
deer mushroom
deer stalker
deer stalking
deer tick
deer ticks
deer trail
deerberries
deerberry
deerburger
deerburgers
deerdom
deere
deeres
deerflesh
deerflies
deerfly

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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