noun
- Wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle.
- synonyms: sheep ked, sheep tick, Melophagus Ovinus
- 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.
- synonyms: sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus
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