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sheep tick

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sheep tick
n.
A wingless louselike fly (Melophagus ovinus) that is parasitic to sheep, causing skin irritations that result in loss of wool. Also called sheep ked.
sheep tick
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a tick, Ixodes ricinus, that is parasitic on sheep, cattle, and man and transmits the disease louping ill in sheep
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for sheep ked
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Noun1.sheep tick - wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattlesheep 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 humanssheep 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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