Search Result for "ixodes ricinus":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]