Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of tracheate Acarida, typified by the genus Ixodes, and comprising all those mites which are properly called ticks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun a natural family of ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head; the hard ticks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuperfamily Ixodoidea — theixodids , (hard ticks).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hard ticks
Etymologies
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Ixodes + -idae
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Examples
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According to this article, ixodid ticks Ixodidae are common on these turtles.
Turtle and its hitchhiker AYDIN 2007
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According to this article, ixodid ticks Ixodidae are common on these turtles.
Archive 2007-06-01 AYDIN 2007
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