noun
ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
• Syn: ↑hard tick
• Hypernyms: ↑tick
• Hyponyms:
↑Ixodes dammini, ↑deer tick, ↑Ixodes neotomae, ↑Ixodes pacificus, ↑western black-legged tick, ↑Ixodes scapularis, ↑black-legged tick, ↑sheep-tick, ↑sheep tick, ↑Ixodes ricinus, ↑Ixodes persulcatus, ↑Ixodes dentatus, ↑Ixodes spinipalpis, ↑wood tick, ↑American dog tick, ↑Dermacentor variabilis
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ixodidae, ↑family Ixodidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.