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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHEEP KED

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Sheep ked is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SHEEP KED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sheep ked

Melophagus ovinus

Melophagus ovinus, or the sheep ked, is a brown, hairy fly that resembles a tick. This wingless fly is about 4 to 6 mm long and has a small head, is a fly from the family Hippoboscidae. They are blood-feeding parasites of sheep. The legs of the sheep ked are very strong and are tipped with claws. Sheep ked lives their whole lives in the wool of sheep. Sheep ked are most commonly found on the neck, shoulders and underbelly of the host animal.

Definition of sheep ked in the English dictionary

The definition of sheep ked in the dictionary is a wingless dipterous fly, Melophagus ovinus, that is an external parasite of sheep: family Hippoboscidae.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHEEP KED

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sheep´s eyes
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sheepberry
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sheepdog

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHEEP KED

backed
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leaked
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marked
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packed
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shocked
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stacked
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Synonyms and antonyms of sheep ked in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sheep ked» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHEEP KED

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Translator English - Chinese

羊糟透了
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ovejas ked
570 millions of speakers

English

sheep ked
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भेड़ ked
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الأغنام رطة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

овец рунец
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ovelhas ked
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভেড়া কেড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moutons ked
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Domba ked
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schafe ked
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

羊ヒツジシラミバエ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

양 KED
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Domba ked
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cừu ked
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செம்மறி ஆடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेड केड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Koyun ked
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pecore ked
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

owce ked
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

овець рунец
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oi ked
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

πρόβατα ΚΕΔ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skape ked
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sheep ked
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sau ked
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHEEP KED»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHEEP KED»

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Pests: A Guide to the World's Most Maligned, yet ...
For the purposes of this book we will look at the most important hip- poboscid from an animal health perspective—the sheep ked. This hippo- boscid is considered to be one of the most important insect pests of sheep and one that has a global ...
Ross Piper, 2011
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Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians
Left, Melophagus ovinus, the sheep ked; center, Lipoptena cervi, the deer ked recovered from a horse; right, a Pseudolynchia from a bird. FIGURE 2-22. Bot spiracles (Gasterophilus and Oestrus Â27; Hypoderma Â55;. Life history Like tsetses, ...
Dwight D. Bowman, Jay R. Georgi, 2009
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Parasitic Infections of Domestic Animals: A Diagnostic Manual
HIPPOBOSCIDAE The louse flies Melopbagus ovinus Sheep ked Location: Skin on the neck, shoulders and belly Hosts: Sheep Species description: The sheep ked is a wingless fly living permanently on sheep. The legs are strong with claws  ...
Johannes Kaufmann, 1996
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Sheep Management and Wool Technology
The Sheep Ked The Sheep Ked (Melophagus ovinus) is widely distributed throughout Australia in the higher rainfall areas, with the exception of Queensland, where it occurs only in the southern districts. It is thought that extreme dryness and ...
J. B. D'Arcy, 1990
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Insects Through the Seasons
We heard about some of them in preceding chapters: the human bot fly or tórsalo; the fleas and lice that attack humans, other mammals, and birds; and the sheep ked that spends all of its life stages in the wool of a sheep or the hair of a goat.
Gilbert Waldbauer, 1998
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The Encyclopedia of Medical and Veterinary Entomology
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Heath, A.C.G. and Bishop, D.M. (1988) Evaluation of 2 pour—on insecticides against the sheep-biting louse, Bovicola ovis and the sheep ked, Melophagus ovin us. New Zealand Journal ofAgricultural Research ...
Richard C. Russell, Domenico Otranto, Richard L. Wall, 2013
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Issues in Life Sciences: Bacteriology, Parasitology, and ...
“SUMMARYThe sheep ked has been largely eradicated in the UK but persists in the feral Soay sheep of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides. Sheep keds transmit Trypanosoma melophagium, but parasitaemias are typically cryptic and this ...
‎2012
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Diseases of Sheep
Sheep ked and lice The sheep ked Melophagus ovinus, a wingless fly which has the sheep as its unique host [17], has always been present in humid areas of Patagonia but over the last decade keds have been expanding to the drier parts of ...
Ian Aitken, 2008
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Modern Livestock & Poultry Production
Figure 29-5 The adult sheep ked is a type of wingless fly. Keds are often mistaken for ticks, but note the ked, an insect, has six legs, while ticks have eight legs. Courtesy of the University of/l/inois at Urbana-Champaign. Figure 29-6 Animals ...
James Gillespie, Frank Flanders, 2009
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New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
The insecticide protected some sheep against reinfestation by the louse for about 8-10 weeks after treatment and prevented the establishment of the sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus, for about 9 weeks. A synthetic pyrethroid pour-on insecticide  ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHEEP KED»

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This psychedelic structure is what dopamine looks like under a …
Bloodsucking sheep ked (Melophagus species), a parasitic wingless fly. Photograph: Spike Walker/Wellcome Images. This psychedelic structure is what ... «io9, Sep 10»

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