Acarus

See also: acarus

Translingual
Acarus siro

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἄκαρι (ákari, “cheese mite, tick”), from ἀκαρής (akarḗs, “tiny”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈæk.ə.ɹəs/

Proper noun

Acarus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Acaridae – many species of small mites.
    • 1658: Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 205)
      water strongly boiled; wherein the Seeds are extinguished by fire and decoction, and therefore last long and pure without such alteration, affording neither uliginous coats, gnatworms, Acari, hairworms, like crude and common water —

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