FAMILY TROMBICULIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Trombiculidae mean? 

• FAMILY TROMBICULIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY TROMBICULIDAE has 1 sense:

1. mites

  Familiarity information: FAMILY TROMBICULIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TROMBICULIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Trombiculidae; Trombiculidae

Hypernyms ("family Trombiculidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Trombiculidae"):

trombiculid (mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates)

genus Trombicula; Trombicula (type genus of the family Trombiculidae)

Holonyms ("family Trombiculidae" is a member of...):

Acarina; order Acarina (mites and ticks)