What does horse tick mean?

horse tick means "winged fly parasitic on horses".

What is another word for horse tick?

Close synonyms include horsefly, Hippobosca equina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horse tick a common word?

horse tick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Horse tick — meaning and 2 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
winged fly parasitic on horses
Synonymshorsefly Hippobosca equina
Broaderlouse fly
Part ofHippobosca

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What does horse tick mean?: horse tick means "winged fly parasitic on horses".
What is another word for horse tick?: Close synonyms include horsefly, Hippobosca equina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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