| NOUN | animal | trombiculid | mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages / stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial / terrestrial vertebrates |
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| Meaning | mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages / stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial / terrestrial vertebrates. | |
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| Member of | Trombiculidae, family Trombiculidae | mites |
| Narrower | harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug | larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation |
| Broader | mite | Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods |
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