Order Acarina (Noun)
Meaning
Mites and ticks.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Order Acarina is a diverse group consisting of mites and ticks that can be found all over the world.
- The order Acarina includes many species, such as ticks, that can be parasitic to humans and other animals.
- Acarina order contains both harmless species like dust mites and highly disease-spreading species like ticks and lice mites.
- Acari or order Acarina arachnids have multiple pairs of legs unlike any spider and are related mostly to spiders in physical terms.
- Animal-hair mites like the order Acarina can inhabit mammals' hair and sometimes cause hair loss.