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- acarian[acarian 词源字典]
- "= acarine", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. From scientific Latin Acarus + -ian. perhaps after French acarien (1833 or earlier as noun (chiefly in plural acariens), 1842 or earlier as adjective).[acarian etymology, acarian origin, 英语词源]
- acaricide
- "A substance poisonous to mites or ticks", Late 19th century: from Greek akari 'mite, tick' + -cide.
- acariasis
- "Infestation, especially of the skin, with mites or ticks; disease resulting from such infestation; an instance of this", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist and naturalist. From acarus or its etymon post-classical Latin acarus + -iasis.
- acaricidal
- "Of the nature of an acaricide; of or relating to the killing of mites or ticks", Mid 19th cent..