phrasal verb: an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit
verb: the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
ixodes scapularis: 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)