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SHEEP TICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheep tick mean? 

SHEEP TICK (noun)
  The noun SHEEP TICK has 2 senses:

1. wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattleplay

2. 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 spirocheteplay

  Familiarity information: SHEEP TICK used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHEEP TICK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Melophagus Ovinus; sheep-tick; sheep ked; sheep tick

Hypernyms ("sheep tick" is a kind of...):

hippoboscid; louse fly (bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals)

Holonyms ("sheep tick" is a member of...):

genus Melophagus; Melophagus (an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked)


Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ixodes ricinus; sheep-tick; sheep tick

Hypernyms ("sheep tick" is a kind of...):

hard tick; ixodid (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)

Holonyms ("sheep tick" is a member of...):

genus Ixodes; Ixodes (type genus of the family Ixodidae)


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