noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of the family Trombiculidae of mites.
2. 2
   mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates wordnet

Etymology

From translingual Trombiculidae + -id.

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