Tetranychidae

noun

plant-feeding mites

• Syn: ↑family Tetranychidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Acarina, ↑order Acarina

• Member Meronyms: ↑spider mite, ↑tetranychid, ↑Panonychus, ↑genus Panonychus

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\\ˌte.trəˈnikəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Tetranychus, type genus + -idae

: a family of medium-sized soft-bodied mites that have the movable chela of each chelicera modified into a long piercing organ, tenent hairs on the claws, and no genital suckers, that feed on plants and usually spin silken webs over the foliage, and that comprise the economically important red spiders