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acarian
"= acarine", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
. From scientific Latin
Acarus
+ -ian. perhaps after French
acarien
(1833 or earlier as noun (chiefly in plural
acariens
), 1842 or earlier as adjective).