hippoboscid

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

hippoboscid - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammalslouse flydipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercingfamily Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae - winged or wingless dipterans: louse fliesHippobosca equina, horse tick, horsefly - winged fly parasitic on horsesMelophagus Ovinus, sheep ked, sheep tick, sheep-tick - wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle