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ACARINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mites and ticks
Synonyms:
Acarina; order Acarina
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Acarina" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Acarina"):
acarine (mite or tick)
tick (any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals)
family Ixodidae; Ixodidae (hard ticks)
Argasidae; family Argasidae (soft ticks)
mite (any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods)
Acaridae; family Acaridae; family Trombidiidae; Trombidiidae; family Trombiculidae; Trombiculidae (mites)
family Sarcoptidae; Sarcoptidae (small whitish mites)
acarus; genus Acarus (any of several mites of the order Acarina)
family Tetranychidae; Tetranychidae (plant-feeding mites)
Holonyms ("Acarina" is a member of...):
Arachnida; class Arachnida (a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings)
