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Chigger

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Noun

1. chigger, chigoe, chigoe flea, tunga penetrans

small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans

2. chigger, harvest mite, jigger, redbug

larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chigger

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noun
1. Also called: chigoe, redbug US and Canadian
the parasitic larva of any of various free-living mites of the family Trombidiidae, which causes intense itching of human skin
2.  another name for the chigoe (sense 1)

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Chigger

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noun
US
the tiny, red larva of a family (Trombiculidae) of mites, whose bite causes severe itching

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chigger

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n.
1. Any of various small, six-legged larvae of mites of the family Trombiculidae that parasitize humans and other vertebrates. The chigger's bite produces a wheal that is usually accompanied by severe itching. Also called chigoe, harvest bug, harvest mite, jigger2, red bug.
2. See chigoe.

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