chig·ger (ch g  r)n. 1. Any of various small, six-legged larvae of mites of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on insects, 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. [Alteration of chigoe.] |
chigger [ˈtʃɪgə]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) 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. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for the chigoe [1]
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| Noun | 1. |  chigger - small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humansflea - any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap genus Tunga, Tunga - a genus of Siphonaptera |
| 2. | chigger - larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation trombiculid - mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates genus Trombicula, Trombicula - type genus of the family Trombiculidae |
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