| NOUN | quantity | mite, touch, hint, tinge, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon | a slight but appreciable amount |
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| animal | mite | any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods |
| Sounds | may't | |
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| Rhymes | acolyte ... write: 181 rhymes with ayt... | |
| Meaning | A slight but appreciable amount. | |
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| Synonyms | touch, hint, tinge, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon | |
| Narrower | snuff | A pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time |
| Broader | small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount | An indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude |
| Spanish | pizca | |
| Catalan | pessic | |
| Meaning | Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods. | |
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| Member of | Acarina, order Acarina | mites and ticks |
| Narrower | acarid | Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants |
| acarus, genus Acarus | Any of several mites of the order Acarina | |
| itch mite, sarcoptid | whitish mites that attack the skin of humans and other animals | |
| rust mite | Any of several varieties of mite that burrow into plants and cause a reddish-brown discoloration on the leaves or fruit | |
| spider mite, tetranychid | web-spinning mite that attacks garden plants and fruit trees | |
| trombiculid | mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages / stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial / terrestrial vertebrates | |
| trombidiid | mite that in all stages / stages feeds on other arthropods | |
| web-spinning mite | A mite that spins a web | |
| Broader | acarine | mite or tick |
| Spanish | ácaro | |
| Catalan | àcar | |
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