sheeptick

or sheep tick

[ sheep-tik ]

/ ˈʃipˌtɪk /

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noun

a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.

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Also called ked, sheep ked.

Origin of sheeptick

1375–1425; late Middle English scheptyke;see sheep, tick²

How to use sheeptick in a sentence

While there, we were greatly annoyed by the wood-tick—an insect resembling, in size and in other respects, the sheep-tick.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXX|Joel Palmer
The Sheep Tick (Melophagus ovinus) is another well-known example.
The Young Collector's Handbook of Ants, Bees, Dragon-flies, Earwigs, Crickets, and Flies|W. Harcourt Bath
Pratt has traced them in the sheep-tick (Melophagus) to an early stage of the embryonic life.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4|Various

British Dictionary definitions for sheeptick

sheep tick

noun

a tick, Ixodes ricinus, that is parasitic on sheep, cattle, and man and transmits the disease louping ill in sheep

another name for sheep ked

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