: any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors
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: a small coin or sum of money
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: a very little : bit
b
: a very small object or creature
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Noun (2)
I have only a mite left to buy lunch for the rest of the week
the kitten was just a mite, hardly the size of my palm
that speech didn't make a mite of sense
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
Controlling mite populations could therefore protect queens and prevent unnecessary supersedure events.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
The best down alternative pillows, however, are popular for resembling down without the dust and mites that can often wreak havoc on sinuses overnight.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025
Poor little mite, and poor family.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Use a magnifying glass, and look on the underside of foliage where mites like to hide.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
Controlling mite populations could therefore protect queens and prevent unnecessary supersedure events.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
The best down alternative pillows, however, are popular for resembling down without the dust and mites that can often wreak havoc on sinuses overnight.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025
Poor little mite, and poor family.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Mite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mite. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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mite
noun
: 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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