| NOUN | animal | sheep tick, sheep ked, sheep-tick, Melophagus Ovinus | wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle |
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| animal | sheep tick, sheep-tick, Ixodes ricinus | parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans |
| Meaning | wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle. | |
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| Synonyms | sheep ked, sheep-tick, Melophagus Ovinus | |
| Member of | Melophagus, genus Melophagus | An arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked |
| Broader | louse fly, hippoboscid | bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | sheep-tick, Ixodes ricinus | |
| Member of | Ixodes, genus Ixodes | type genus of the family Ixodidae |
| Broader | hard tick, ixodid | ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head |
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