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Same as Water mite.
Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider.
A water mite.
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n.
An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
n.
Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.
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Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.
v. t.
To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.
n.
The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; -- sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest.
n.pl.
A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
n.
A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
a.
Having, or abounding with, mites.
n.
The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite.
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A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
n.
Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).
a.
Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra.
n. pl.
An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.
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A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites.
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An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
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Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites.
a.
Of or pertaining to the itch mites.
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