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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The H. punctata, known as the "red sheep tick," is native to the southern half of Europe, as well as England and parts of the North African coast.

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People are most likely to come across sheep ticks, which feed on mammals and birds.

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Then he would descend directly afterwards to such minor matters in natural history as the feeding habits of the sheep ticks, which in places swarmed.

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Really they aren't fleas at all, but a form of sheep tick.

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They are about the size of a sheep tick when empty, but they get on you and suck and suck, till they are full of your blood and size of a grape.

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