Definition of "acarologist" in English

noun

1. A specialist in acarology - the study of ticks and mites.

   • 2011, Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle, David Suzuki Foundation, Greystone Books, page 41, One acarologist wrote several years ago that mites dwell "in a strange and beautiful world where a meter amounts to a mile and yesterday was years ago."