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acarus - What does it mean?

Definition of 'acarus'

English

(Acarina)

Noun

(acari)
  • (zoology) A mite, especially one from the genus Acarus.
  • * 1658': 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 — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 205)