Word.ws English Dictionary

black-legged tick

black-legged tick noun: a deer tick (Ixodes scapularis).

Noun

black-legged tick (plural black-legged ticks)

  1. A deer tick (Ixodes scapularis).

Forms of black-legged tick

pluralblack-legged ticks

Questions about black-legged tick

What does black-legged tick mean?
Black-legged tick means a deer tick (Ixodes scapularis).
What part of speech is black-legged tick?
Black-legged tick is a noun.
What is the plural of black-legged tick?
The plural of black-legged tick is black-legged ticks.

Words near black-legged tick in the dictionary

  1. black-humored
  2. black-jack
  3. black-jacks
  4. black-legged kittiwake
  5. black-legged kittiwakes
  6. black-legged tick
  7. black-legged ticks
  8. black-letter
  9. black-letter day
  10. black-letter days
  11. black-letter law

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: black-legged tick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “black-legged tick.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/black-legged_tick. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.