Crossword clues for mite
mite
- Teensy amount
- Wee amount
- Tiny parasite
- Teeny amount
- Wee pest
- Wee thing
- Small pest
- No big thing
- Dust critter
- Tick relative
- Teensy arachnid
- Small parasite
- Small arachnid
- Puny parasite
- Wee arachnid
- Tick, for one
- Spider's kin
- Small bug
- Puny pest
- Parasitic arachnid
- Dust-dwelling arachnid
- Dust bug
- Coin of low value
- Word with ''ear'' or ''dust''
- Widow's offering
- Somewhat, with "a"
- Microscopic arachnid
- Itty-bitty bug
- Itsy-bitsy critter
- Infesting critter
- Dust-dwelling critter
- Dust ___ (tiny bug)
- Critter in house dust
- Biblical coin
- Widow's gift
- Wee bug
- Wee arthropod
- Wee acarid
- Tiny, pesty arachnid
- Tiny spider-like animal
- Tiny spider
- Tiny plant pest
- Tiny arthropod
- Tick's relative
- Tick cousin
- Spiderlike creature
- Spider's tiny cousin
- Small offering
- Scabies transmitter
- Pesty arachnid
- Parasitic pest
- Parasite in the dust
- Minute pest
- Minor amount
- Mattress critter
- Mange cause
- Little thing
- Itty-bitty parasite
- Itsy-bitsy parasite
- Itsy-bitsy nuisance
- It bites the dust
- Flour ___ (tiny pest that feeds on grain)
- Dust-dwelling pest
- Dust arachnid
- Dust __: tiny house critter
- Dust __: teensy arachnid
- Dust ___ (small bug)
- Dust ___ (bug)
- Critter in the dust
- Bird pest
- Bed bug
- A small contribution
- 131 Tiny quantity
- Tiny biter
- Wee parasite
- Pittance
- Bit or bitty biter
- Itsy-bitsy bug
- Small amount
- Little critter
- Small thing
- Tiny critter
- Itsy-bitsy biter
- Iota
- Pesky arachnid
- Teensy bit
- Itty-bitty biter
- Small bit
- Smidge
- Tiny arachnid ... or tiny amount
- Tiny bug
- Wee bit
- Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
- A small but appreciable amount
- Very small sum
- Small sum
- Half a farthing
- Small contribution
- Tiny pest
- Grown-up chigger
- An arachnid
- Tiny creature
- Chigger
- Plant pest
- Plant parasite
- Minimal amount
- Little bit or little biter
- Very small object
- Adult chigger
- Tetranychid
- Minute arachnid
- Tiny item
- Very small creature
- Acarologist's subject
- Widow's ____ (small amount)
- Particle
- Smidgen
- Small creature
- Widow's portion
- Small insect
- Speck
- Acarid
- Trifle
- Tiny one
- Arachnid
- Whit
- Widow's ___ (pittance)
- Tick's cousin
- Modest offering from overseas university: English
- Small creature’s power spoken about
- Small amount in moieties oddly
- Audible power in poor little thing
- Before leaving reclusive sort makes widow's contribution
- Don’t start to hit small child
- Tiny child’s modest contribution
- Tick's kin
- University education kicking off a little bit
- Tiny amount
- Minuscule amount
- Teeny bit
- Slight amount
- Trifling amount
- Itty-bitty bit
- Tiny insect
- Tiny quantity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mite \Mite\ (m[imac]t), n. [AS. m[=i]te mite (in sense 1); akin to LG. mite, D. mijt, G. miete, OHG. m[=i]za; cf. Goth. maitan to cut.]
(Zo["o]l.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the dust mite, cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, three-toed spider mite, etc. See Acarina.
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[D. mijt; prob. the same word.] 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.
Two mites, which make a farthing.
--Mark xii. 49. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
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Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
For in effect they be not worth a myte.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tiny animal, minute arachnid," Old English mite, from Proto-Germanic *miton (cognates: Middle Dutch mite, Dutch mijt, Old High German miza, Danish mide) originally meaning perhaps "the cutter," in reference to its bite, from Proto-Germanic *mait- (cognates: Gothic maitan, Old High German meizen "to cut"), from PIE root *mai- "to cut" (see maim). Or else its original sense is "something small," and it is from PIE *mei- (2) "small," in reference to size (see minus).
"little bit," mid-14c., from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German mite "tiny animal," from Proto-Germanic *miton-, from PIE *mei- (2) "small" (see minus), and thus probably identical with mite (n.1). Also the name of a medieval Flemish copper coin of very small value, proverbial in English for "a very small unit of money," hence used since Wyclif to translate Latin minutum from Vulgate in Mark xii:43, itself a translation of Greek lepton. French mite (14c.) is a loan-word from Dutch.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina. 2 A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. 3 A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. 4 A small weight; one twentieth of a grain. 5 Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. Sometimes used adverbially.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Mites, along with ticks, are small arthropods belonging to the subclass Acari (also known as Acarina) and the class Arachnida. The scientific discipline devoted to the study of ticks and mites is called acarology. In soil ecosystems, mites are favored by high organic matter content and by moist conditions, wherein they actively engage in the fragmentation and mixing of organic matter.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the mite is a type of creature.
Mites are small arachnids in the subclass Acari.
Mite may also refer to:
- Mite (Dungeons & Dragons), a character in the role-playing games
- Mooney M-18 Mite, an aircraft
- River Mite, a river in northern England
People:
- Mite Cikarski, Macedonian footballer
- Mite Kremnitz, German writer
MITE or MITES may refer to:
- Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering
- Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science
Usage examples of "mite".
In 1922 the United States had prohibited the import of foreign bees because they were bringing with them a tiny eight-legged tick called the Acarine mite.
She was right impressed to be serving a man of the cloth, which I was back in those days, and I converted the bejabbers out of her three or four times a day, which made my incarceration in durance vile a mite easier to take.
Lilliputian, a chit, a fingerling, a pigwidgeon, a mite, a dandiprat, a micromorph, an homunculus, a dapperling, a small fry or someone with bad posture, weighted down with the cares of the world?
Mum, learning at her knee about whelping and worming, infections, dysplasia, mites and ticks.
He was a mite of a boy, nothing but skin-covered bones, his burned, freckled face in a mortar of tears and dust, his clothing unspeakably dirty, one great toe in a festering mass from a broken nail, and sores all over the visible portions of the small body.
He just staggered a mite and then shook his haid and went red in the face.
Are you, or are you not, the Jason Goddard I sneaked off to Mite Hockey when you were too young to blow your own nose?
Victorian immune system, and of these, most were immunocules whose job was to drift around the dirty littoral of New Chusan using lidar to home in on any other mites that might disobey protocol.
Rob Lusk was a mite too big to punch out, but she was heating up to it.
Starling mites might bite you if you let starlings or mynas nest in your ceiling and the straw mite might if you are in contact with stored straw or grains.
New Guinea that lives symbiotically with dozens of plants, growing in the niches and clefts in its carapace, rooted all the way down to its flesh, plus a whole ecosystem of mites, rotifers, nematodes, and bacteria attached to the garden.
Sir, you nose very well that evere persun must luk furst at ome, and sartenly such anuther offar mite not have ever hapned, so as I shud ave bin justly to blam, had I not excepted of it when her lashipp was so veri kind as to offar to mak mee hur one uman without mi ever askin any such thing, to be sur shee is won of thee best ladis in thee wurld, and pepil who sase to the kontrari must bee veri wiket pepil in thare harts.
I have returned to discover them infected with tracheal and Varroa jacobsoni mites.
Miss Pixley wuz very well off though they lived in a little mite of a dark, low, lonesome house, with some tall Pollard willows in front of the door in a row, and jest acrost the road from a grave-yard.
But howsumever she never could take a mite of care of her children, they wuz brought up on wet nurses, and bottles, etc.