acarine

English Thesaurus

1. mite or tick (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arachnid, arachnoid,
definition	:	air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	tick,
definition	:	any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	mite,
definition	:	any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	acarina, order acarina,
definition	:	mites and ticks (noun.animal)