mite-borne
adjective
Carried or transmitted by mites; specifically in mite-borne typhus (also mite-borne typhus fever), scrub typhus, which is transmitted by trombiculid mites.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Medical Journal of Australia.
- starting point
- starting post
- starting price
- starting salary
- starting stall
- startle
- startler
- startling
- startlingly
- start off (or start someone/thing off)
- start on
- start (or get or set) the ball rolling
- start out (or up)
- start over
- Start Point
- start something
- start-up
- star turn
- starvation
- starvation wages
- starve
- starveling
- starve the beast
- Star Wars
- starwort