Definition of Order Acarina

1. Noun. Mites and ticks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Acarina

ordaining
ordainment
ordainments
ordains
ordalian
ordalium
ordaliums
orde
ordeal
ordeal bean
ordeal tree
ordeals
order
order-Chenopodiales
order-in-council
order Acarina (current term)
order Accipitriformes
order Actinaria
order Actiniaria
order Actinomycetales
order Actinomyxidia
order Aepyorniformes
order Agaricales
order Alcyonaria
order Alismales
order Amoebida
order Amoebina
order Amphipoda
order Anacanthini
order Anaspida

Literary usage of Order Acarina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"order Acarina. — To the order Acarina belong the ticks and mites. The cephalothorax and abdomen are fused, the larvae have only three pairs of legs; ..."

2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"TICKS AND MITES (order Acarina) From an economic standpoint the mites and ticks, constituting the order Acarina, are by far the most important members of ..."

3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1904)
"THE classification of the order acarina. though far from being finally settled in regard to the position which some of its families may hold, ..."

4. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"The order Acarina is one of great biologic interest and of equally great economic importance; but the minute size of most of the species makes its study ..."

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