ACARINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Acarina mean? 

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

1. mites and ticks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACARINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mites and ticks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Acarina; order Acarina

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Acarina"):

acarine (mite or tick)

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

family Ixodidae; Ixodidae (hard ticks)

Argasidae; family Argasidae (soft ticks)

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

Acaridae; family Acaridae; family Trombidiidae; Trombidiidae; family Trombiculidae; Trombiculidae (mites)

family Sarcoptidae; Sarcoptidae (small whitish mites)

acarus; genus Acarus (any of several mites of the order Acarina)

family Tetranychidae; Tetranychidae (plant-feeding mites)

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

Arachnida; class Arachnida (a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings)