ORDER ACARINA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Acarina mean? 

• ORDER ACARINA (noun)
  The noun ORDER ACARINA has 1 sense:

1. mites and ticks

  Familiarity information: ORDER ACARINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER ACARINA (noun)

Meaning:

Mites and ticks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Acarina; order Acarina

Hypernyms ("order Acarina" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Acarina"):

acarus; genus Acarus (any of several mites of the order Acarina)

family Sarcoptidae; Sarcoptidae (small whitish mites)

family Trombiculidae; Trombiculidae; family Trombidiidae; Trombidiidae; Acaridae; family Acaridae (mites)

mite (any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods)

Argasidae; family Argasidae (soft ticks)

family Ixodidae; Ixodidae (hard ticks)

tick (any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals)

acarine (mite or tick)

family Tetranychidae; Tetranychidae (plant-feeding mites)

Holonyms ("order Acarina" is a member of...):

Arachnida; class Arachnida (a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings)