Associations to the word «Acarina»

Wiktionary

ACARINA, proper noun. A taxonomic subclass within the class Arachnida   — includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

Dictionary definition

ACARINA, noun. Mites and ticks.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope