hippoboscid

Noun hippoboscid has 1 sense

• hippoboscid(n = noun.animal) louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals;
is a kind of dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects
is a member of family hippoboscidae, hippoboscidae
has particulars: hippobosca equina, horse tick, horsefly, melophagus ovinus, sheep-tick, sheep ked, sheep tick