sheep tick

noun

1. a tick, Ixodes ricinus, that is parasitic on sheep, cattle, and man and transmits the disease louping ill in sheep
2. another name for sheep ked

Example Sentences

While there, we were greatly annoyed by the wood-tick—an insect resembling, in size and in other respects, the sheep-tick.

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The Sheep Tick (Melophagus ovinus) is another well-known example.

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Pratt has traced them in the sheep-tick (Melophagus) to an early stage of the embryonic life.

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