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sheep-tick   (TTS Sound)

The noun sheep-tick has 2 senses

• sheep ked, sheep-tick, sheep tick, Melophagus Ovinus -- (wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle)


• sheep-tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus -- (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)