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Definition of Sheep-tick
1. Noun. Wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle.
Generic synonyms: Hippoboscid, Louse Fly
Group relationships: Genus Melophagus, Melophagus
2. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Hard Tick, Ixodid
Group relationships: Genus Ixodes, Ixodes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheep-tick
Literary usage of Sheep-tick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"A sheep-tick. So Fag-water, water mixed with mercury (arsenic) and soft-soap, in
which sheep are dipped to kill the ticks. FAIRLY, adv. ..."
2. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"The young of the sheep tick leave the body of the female ready to pupate. ...
Swingle regards about four months as the average life of a sheep tick and that ..."
3. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"The most important species is the sheep tick or sheep louse fly, ... The young
of the sheep tick leave the body of the female ready to pupate. ..."
4. Sheep Diseases by Eustace Thurman Baker (1916)
"In the sheep raising section on the western range only five parasites are common;
two external, the common scab mite and the sheep tick; three internal, ..."
5. Management and Feeding of Sheep by Thomas Shaw (1914)
"The sheep tick is more or less in evidence wherever sheep are kept on this continent
... The sheep tick propagates by means of the eggs laid by the females. ..."
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