sheep-tick
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.animal)
| member meronym | : | genus ixodes, ixodes, |
| definition | : | type genus of the family Ixodidae (noun.animal) |
2. wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | hippoboscid, louse fly, |
| definition | : | bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus melophagus, melophagus, |
| definition | : | an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked (noun.animal) |
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