Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The group of species in the arachnid subclass Acari, which includes the ticks and mites.
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- noun Plural form of
acarus .
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Examples
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Although a knowledge of such diseases is easy where it concerns parasites such as acari and worms, it becomes very difficult when it is a question of diseases that are caused by the Bacteriaceæ.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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Una rock band di zecche ed acari segue il suo leader innamorato di una donna umana.
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I was kept at Paso by an inflammatory eruption, brought on by the constant attacks of small acari-like harvest-bugs, for which the forests of Ceram are famous, and also by the want of nourishing food while in that island.
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A creature is also found in wax long laid by, just as in wood, and it is the smallest of animalcules and is white in colour, and is designated the acari or mite.
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French, — already referred to, in its common forms is an eruption of minute vesicles, generally containing animalcula (acari), and of which the principal seats are between the fingers, bend of the wrist, etc.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Its causes are in the main, due to poor food, which produces a debilitated condition of the system, and in connection with a want of cleanliness, causes a development of the _acari_, or minute insects, exciting very great irritation upon the skin and causing the cow to rub herself against every object with which she comes in contact.
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Linnean Society of England, for a masterly treatise on a group of acari, or _mites_, known as the _oribatidæ_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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The great trouble in treating this disease springs from its contagious character; for, no sooner is the animal, oftentimes, once free from the _acari_ than it comes in contact with some object against which it has previously been rubbing, when the
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Making my visit at an hour when a more favourable light entered the room, swarms of acari were found on the cards, about the glass tumbler, both within and without, and also on the platform of the apparatus.
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Suppose it be desired to photograph four different species of acari on one plate, the image of each when magnified to the desired extent only covering about one-fourth the exposed area of the plate.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various
mr_write commented on the word acari
acari Mites of the genus acarus.
December 8, 2007