acaridann.adj.
/əˈkɛːrᵻd(ə)n/, U.S. /əˈkɛrəd(ə)n/ Zoology. Now rare.
A. n.
= acarine n. 1. Cf. acaridian n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (mite)
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1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xix. 306 The bat is infested by another parasite, placed by Dr. Leach at the end of the Acaridans.
1873 Academy 1 Nov. 416/1 The little acaridan quits its temporary host and its hypopial form and reassumes the original tyroglyphic one.
1920 I. C. LeCompte tr. J. Brunhes Human Geogr. xi. 576 There is certainly a geography of the insects, acaridans, rodents, etc., which transmit such diseases as malaria, yellow fever, or cholera.
B. adj.
= acarine adj. Cf. acaridian adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > relating to or caused by mite
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1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xix. 281 (heading) Functions and instincts. Arachnidan, Pseudarachnidan, and Acaridan Condylopes.
1908 Proc. Delaware County Inst. Sci. 3 122 Sweet fern lost its charm, when, too late, alas! it was discovered to be the habitat of a species of the acaridan arachnids, which to us, in simpler language, meant legions of seed ticks.
1930 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 45 2744 The exanthematic fever observed recently at Toulon..is probably transmitted by an acaridan parasite of the rat, Dermanyssus muris.
1991 R. A. Leopold in R. E. Lee & D. L. Denlinger Insects at Low Temp. 380 Infective larvae of nematodes and flagellate protozoans survive cryopreservation within the whole bodies of their respective acaridan and dipteran vectors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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