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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the arachnid family Acaridae, which includes mites that infest stored food.
- noun An arachnid of the subclass Acari or the order Acarina, which includes the mites and ticks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Acarida; a mite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology, zoology Any
parasitic arachnid , such asmites andticks , of the subclassAcarina . - adjective biology, zoology Of or pertaining to acarids.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Acaridae, family name, from Acarus, type genus, from Greek akari, a kind of mite.]
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