ACARINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acarine mean? 

• ACARINE (noun)
  The noun ACARINE has 1 sense:

1. mite or tick

  Familiarity information: ACARINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACARINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mite or tick

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("acarine" is a kind of...):

arachnid; arachnoid (air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acarine"):

tick (any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals)

mite (any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods)

Holonyms ("acarine" is a member of...):

Acarina; order Acarina (mites and ticks)