acaroid

[ak-uh-roid]

ac·a·roid

[ak-uh-roid]
adjective
resembling a mite or tick.

Origin:
1875–80; acar(us) + -oid
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Acaroid is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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acaroid (ˈækəˌrɔɪd)
 
adj
resembling a mite or tick
 
[C19: see acarus, -oid]

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acaroid ac·a·roid (āk'ə-roid')
adj.
Resembling a mite.

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