acarine vs mite

acarine and mite both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
acarine	Yes	No	No	No
mite	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mite is a hyponym of acarine; that is, mite is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than acarine:

acarine: mite or tick
mite: any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

Other hyponyms of acarine include tick.

acarine (noun)	mite (noun)
mite or tick	any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
	a slight but appreciable amount