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Webster 1913 Edition

Ixodes

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Ix-o′des

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] like birdlime; [GREEK] birdlime +

εἶδοσ

form.]

(Zool.)

A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See

, the insect.