Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mite of the family Acaridæ and subfamily Tyroglyphinœ, Tyroglyphus (formerly
Acarus ) siro. It occurs not only in cheese, but in flour, when it is known as the flour-mite, and in milk, when it is called the milk-mite.
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Examples
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It may amaze a Papuan to see his eyelash magnified to the size of a wire, or an uneducated Englishman to see a cheese-mite magnified to the size of a midge.
The Crack of Doom Robert Cromie 1881
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Each as full of itself as a cheese-mite of cheese;
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Each as full of itself as a cheese-mite of cheese;
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09: the Iron Gate and Other Poems Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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