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chigger

Noun

chig=ger

WORDNET DICTIONARY

chigger(n = noun.animal) chigoe, chigoe flea, tunga penetrans - small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans; Array

is a kind of flea

is a member of genus tunga, tunga

chigger(n = noun.animal) harvest mite, jigger, redbug - larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation; Array

is a kind of trombiculid

is a member of genus trombicula, trombicula

chigger, n.

a small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans); same as chigoe. [WordNet 1.5]
a larval mite of the family Trombiculidae that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings, causing intense irritation, and serving to transmit several infectious diseases. [WordNet 1.5]

chigger, n.
1 = CHIGOE.
2 any harvest mite of the genus Leptotrombidium with parasitic larvae.

Etymology

var. of CHIGOE

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