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cheese mite

noun

  1. a white soft-bodied free-living mite, Tyrophagus (or Tyroglyphus ) longior, sometimes found in decaying cheese
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Perhaps the visitors pay their respects at the cheese mite memorial outside.

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Another common genus is Tyroglyphus, which includes the common cheese mite, T. siro.

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Comparing them with a cheese mite, which may be seen to move with the naked eye, I make the proportion of one of these small water creatures to a cheese mite to be like that of a bee to a horse.

Even a century later, had physicians made better use of their microscopes, they could hardly have overlooked such an easily found parasite as the itch mite, which is quite as easily detected as the cheese mite, pictured in Hooke's book.

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