parasitengone

English

Noun

parasitengone (plural parasitengones)

1. (zoology) Any mite of the clade Parasitengona.
   • 2013, Heather Proctor, Aquatic Mites from Genes to Communities, page 143:

     Thus it is possible that mechanisms of distastefulness evolved independently in terrestrial and aquatic parasitengones.

Hyponyms

• water mite