SHEEP-TICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheep-tick mean? 

• SHEEP-TICK (noun)
  The noun SHEEP-TICK has 2 senses:

1. wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle

2. 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

  Familiarity information: SHEEP-TICK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEEP-TICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Melophagus Ovinus; sheep-tick; sheep ked; sheep tick

Hypernyms ("sheep-tick" is a kind of...):

hippoboscid; louse fly (bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals)

Holonyms ("sheep-tick" is a member of...):

genus Melophagus; Melophagus (an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ixodes ricinus; sheep-tick; sheep tick

Hypernyms ("sheep-tick" is a kind of...):

hard tick; ixodid (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)

Holonyms ("sheep-tick" is a member of...):

genus Ixodes; Ixodes (type genus of the family Ixodidae)