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

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

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

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