MITE
\mˈa͡ɪt], \mˈaɪt], \m_ˈaɪ_t]\
Definitions of MITE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
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A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
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Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
By Oddity Software
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A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
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A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
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Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
By Noah Webster.
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Any arthropod of the subclass ACARI except the TICKS. They are minute animals related to the spiders, usually having transparent or semitransparent bodies. They may be parasitic on humans and domestic animals, producing various irritations of the skin (MITE INFESTATIONS). Many mite species are important to human and veterinary medicine as both parasite and vector. Mites also infest plants.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A very tiny insect; a small coin used in former times; colloquially, a very small object or quantity.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A very small insect, which generally breeds in cheese.
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The minutest or smallest of coins, about 1/2 of a cent: anything very small: a very little quantity.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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