Definition of mite
:any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors
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Origin and Etymology of mite
Middle English, from Old English mīte; akin to Middle Dutch mite mite, small copper coin
Origin and Etymology of mite
Middle English, from Middle French or Middle Dutch; Middle French, small Flemish copper coin, from Middle Dutch
MITE Defined for Kids
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Definition of mite for Students
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:a tiny animal that is related to and resembles the spider and often lives as a parasite on plants and other animals
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:a very small person, thing, or amount
Medical Dictionary
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medical Definition of mite
:any of numerous small to very minute arachnids of the order Acari that have a body without a constriction between the cephalothorax and abdomen, mandibles generally chelate or adapted for piercing, usually four pairs of short legs in the adult and but three in the young larvae, and often breathing organs in the form of tracheae and that include parasites of insects and vertebrates some of which are important disease vectors, parasites of plants in which they frequently cause gall formation, pests of various stored products, and completely innocuous free-living aquatic and terrestrial forms — see itch mite
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