Acarus

//ˈæk.ə.ɹəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any member of the subclass Acari (aka Acarina): thus, a mite or a tick; specifically, any mite of the genus Acarus.

    "water strongly boiled; wherein the Seeds are extinguished by fire and decoction, and therefore last long and pure without such alteration, affording neither uliginous coats, gnatworms, Acari, hairworms, like crude and common water"

  2. 2
    any of several mites of the order Acarina wordnet

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genus acarus

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"If you're allergic to acarus, you need to clean your bedclothes, your carpet and your rugs."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from translingual Acarus, from Ancient Greek ἀκαρί (akarí, “cheese mite, tick”).

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