acari
acari is the plural of acarus.
Meaning of acarus
Noun
acarus (plural acari or acarina)
- Any member of the subclass Acari (aka Acarina): thus, a mite or a tick; specifically, any mite of the genus Acarus.
- 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 water1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 205
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- Acari is the plural of acarus.
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