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black-legged tick

noun 17 letters Scrabble 32 WWF 39
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noun

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)

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