TROMBICULID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trombiculid mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROMBICULID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

chigger; harvest mite; jigger; redbug (larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation)

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

family Trombiculidae; Trombiculidae (mites)