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Acarus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus including many species of small mites.

Acarus Encyclopedia Britannica

ACARUS (from άκαρι, a mite), a genus of Arachnides, represented by the cheese mite and other forms.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 79
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