Definitions for Acarus

Acarus ac·a·rus

Spelling: [ak-er-uh s]
IPA: /ˈæk ər əs/

Acarus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in Acarus (aacrsu).

Definitions for Acarus

noun

  1. a mite, especially of the genus Acarus.

Origin of Acarus

1650-60; New Latin Greek ákari mite

Examples for Acarus

We now come to the genus acarus (Tyroglyphus), of which the cheese and sugar mites are examples.

A parasite known as the acarus folliculorum infests the sebaceous glands.

The acarus Scabiei causes itch, but fortunately it is rare in America.

It would be an acarus, he observes, but it has only six legs.

The acarus autumnalis, or mower's mite, has been found in the skin of this part, and it is capable of causing great distress.

It has not been demonstrated that the acarus so common in flour has had any injurious effect when eaten.

acarus farinæ DeGeer, as its name indicates, is found in flour.

Scabs of any thickness may form, but the special features are the intense itching and the presence of the acarus.

Yet the acarus has eight legs, like a spider, and the harvest-bug six, like an insect.

Abdomen cylindrical, covered towards the thorax with beautiful red lice, (acarus coleoptratorum).

Word Value for Acarus
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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