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HARVEST MITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does harvest mite mean?
• HARVEST MITE (noun)
The noun HARVEST MITE has 1 sense:
1. larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
Familiarity information: HARVEST MITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
chigger; harvest mite; jigger; redbug
Hypernyms ("harvest mite" is a kind of...):
trombiculid (mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates)
Holonyms ("harvest mite" is a member of...):
genus Trombicula; Trombicula (type genus of the family Trombiculidae)
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