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sheep keds

sheep keds is the plural of sheep ked.

Meaning of sheep ked

Noun

sheep ked (plural sheep keds)

  1. A wingless blood-feeding ked (louse fly) of sheep, Melophagus ovinus.
    • The sheep-ked, or kaid (Melophagus ovinus), is one of the most common and annoying pests to which the sheep is subject.1852, H. D. Richardson, The pests of the farm, with instructions for their extirpation, page 128

Questions about sheep keds

What is sheep keds the plural of?
Sheep keds is the plural of sheep ked.

Words near sheep keds in the dictionary

  1. sheep farmers
  2. Sheep Hills
  3. sheep in wolf's clothing
  4. sheep in wolves' clothing
  5. sheep ked
  6. sheep keds
  7. sheep laurel
  8. sheep lice
  9. sheep liver fluke
  10. sheep liver flukes
  11. sheep louse

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