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Acarina   Listen
proper noun
Acarina  n. pl.  (Zool.) The order of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.





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... I have already stated, are not real spiders, but belong to the family Acarina or mites, a family included in the same class (the arachnida) as the true spiders, from which they may be easily distinguished by the want of any apparent division between the head and thorax and body; in the true spiders the head and thorax are united ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various


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