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(archaic) Any of various insects or arachnids the bites of which produce raised sores. / (archaic) A harvest mite, Trombicula sp.

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wheal-worm

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Source Word

wheal-worm

archaic obsolete

Japanese Meaning

皮膚に隆起性の発疹を引き起こす咬傷をもたらす、様々な昆虫またはクモ類（古語） / 収穫期に見られるダニ、Trombicula属（古語）

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After the night in the marsh he woke covered in raised sores from a wheal-worm.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

湿地で一夜を過ごした翌朝、彼は発疹を引き起こす昆虫に刺されて体中に盛り上がった腫れができて目を覚ました。

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(archaic) Any of various insects or arachnids the bites of which produce raised sores.

It may be ſome will think it impoſſible for theſe Wheal-worms to breed between the eyes; but we ſee it is ſo, and we finde it was done ſo formerly

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(archaic) A harvest mite, Trombicula sp.

wheal-worm, n 1. The itch-mite acarus scabiei 2. The acarine Leptus autumnalis, or some similar harvest-bug: so named from the wheals or pimples left by its bite. See cut under harvest-mite.

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Sense（3）

(obsolete) Acarus autumnalis, synonym of Neotrombicula autumnalis, a species of mite

ACARUS AUTUMNALIS. Harvest-bug. Mower's Mite. Wheal-worm. Rouget. The acarus autumnalis is scarcely larger than the acarus scabiei

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wheal-worms

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