Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous small or minute arachnids of the order Acarina, including species that damage crops or stored food and species that are parasitic on animals and often transmit disease.
- noun A very small contribution or amount of money.
- noun A widow's mite.
- noun A very small object, creature, or particle.
- noun A coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing.
- idiom (a mite) To a small degree; somewhat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small coin of any kind, of slight value; any very small sum of money. No coin seems to have been so called specifically.
- noun An English weight somewhat heavier than a grain troy.
- noun An old money of account, the twenty-fourth part of a penny.
- noun Anything very small; a very little particle or quantity: also applied to persons.
- noun A copper or billon coin of very small value, current in Brabant and Holland.
- noun A small arachnidan of the order Acarida; any acarid.
- noun Some insect like or likened to a mite, as a dust-louse (Psocus).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; See
acarina . - noun A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
- noun A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- noun Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A minute
arachnid , of the orderAcarina , of which there are many species; as, thecheese mite , sugar mite,harvest mite , etc. SeeAcarina . - noun A small coin formerly
circulated inEngland , rated at about a third of afarthing . The name is also applied to thelepton , a small coin used inPalestine in the time ofChrist . - noun A small weight; one twentieth of a
grain . - noun Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. Sometimes used adverbially.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slight but appreciable amount
- noun any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This could also help explain why bees infected with IAPV in Australia where the mite is absent do not show as dramatic changes in their behaviour, say scientists.
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He points out that the varroa mite, which is prevalent in the US, weakens the immune system of bees, perhaps making them susceptible to IAPV.
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Even a century later, had physicians made better use of their microscopes, they could hardly have overlooked such an easily found parasite as the itch mite, which is quite as easily detected as the cheese mite, pictured in Hooke's book.
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Funds, in which our mite is a mere drop in the ocean, when by sending up
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The mite was a waif too, alone in the world when his father was at sea, pathetically helpless, with no defence against blows and unkindness.
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Histiostomatidae which is still alive, in the likes of the pitcher plant mite, which is found within the pitcher leaves of North American purple pitcher plants.
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In a Cameroon painting, the widow giving the mite is a young woman with a baby in her arms.
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In a Cameroon painting, the widow giving the mite is a young woman with a baby in her arms.
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An insect discovered at the site after fumigation in May was deemed not to be a bed bug but a clover mite, which is not harmful to furniture or humans, he said.
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