order Acarina

Thesaurus

Noun

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order Acarina - mites and ticks Acarinaanimal order - the order of animalsArachnida, class Arachnida - a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wingsacarine - mite or ticktick - any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animalsfamily Ixodidae, Ixodidae - hard ticksArgasidae, family Argasidae - soft ticksmite - any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foodsAcaridae, family Acaridae - mitesfamily Trombidiidae, Trombidiidae - mitesfamily Trombiculidae, Trombiculidae - mitesfamily Sarcoptidae, Sarcoptidae - small whitish mitesacarus, genus Acarus - any of several mites of the order Acarinafamily Tetranychidae, Tetranychidae - plant-feeding mites