acarine

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

acarine - mite or tick arachnid, arachnoid - air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legsAcarina, order Acarina - mites and tickstick - any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animalsmite - any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods