What does melophagus ovinus mean?

melophagus ovinus means "wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle".

What is another word for melophagus ovinus?

Close synonyms include sheep ked, sheep-tick, sheep tick. 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 melophagus ovinus a common word?

melophagus ovinus 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.

melophagus ovinus — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

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

1.
wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle
Synonymssheep ked sheep-tick sheep tick
Broaderlouse fly
Part ofMelophagus

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What does melophagus ovinus mean?: melophagus ovinus means "wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle".

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