Associations to the word «Ixodid»

Wiktionary

IXODID, noun. (zoology) Any of various ticks of the family Ixodidae.

Dictionary definition

IXODID, noun. Ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope