sheep-tick

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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