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harvest mites

harvest mites is the plural of harvest mite.

Meaning of harvest mite

Noun

harvest mite (plural harvest mites)

  1. Any of various mites of family Trombiculidae that inhabit forests and grasslands and which, in their larval stage, attach to various animals including humans and feed on skin, often causing itching.
    • I wonder what I look like to the intrepid harvest mite, with his six red hungry legs, nosing through the crusted dirt of the Via Solis to find a soft pouch of blood at the base of my forefinger?2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 181
    Synonyms:
    chigger, harvest bug, harvest louse, harvest tick, red bug, trombiculid mite, scrub-itch mite, berry bug

Questions about harvest mites

What is harvest mites the plural of?
Harvest mites is the plural of harvest mite.

Words near harvest mites in the dictionary

  1. harvest homes
  2. harvest lord
  3. harvest lords
  4. harvest mice
  5. harvest mite
  6. harvest mites
  7. harvest moon
  8. harvest moons
  9. harvest mouse
  10. harvest queen
  11. harvest queens

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