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Acaricide

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An agent, usually a chemical, that kills mites.

This class of pesticides is large and includes antibiotic acaricides, carbamate acaricides, formamidine acaricides, mite growth regulators, organophosphate acaricides, and many others.

From the Latin acarus, a mite + -cide, to kill

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