sheep tick

2. A tick (Ixodes ricinus) that infests sheep and other vertebrates, including humans.

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sheep tick

1. (Animals) a tick, Ixodes ricinus, that is parasitic on sheep, cattle, and man and transmits the disease louping ill in sheep

2. (Animals) another name for sheep ked

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Noun	1.	sheep tick - wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle Melophagus Ovinus, sheep ked, sheep-tick hippoboscid, louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals genus Melophagus, Melophagus - an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked
	2.	sheep tick - parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete Ixodes ricinus, sheep-tick hard tick, ixodid - ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head genus Ixodes, Ixodes - type genus of the family Ixodidae

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