harvest mite

harvest mite

n.

See chigger.

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harvest mite

or

harvest tick

n

(Animals) the bright red parasitic larva of any of various free-living mites of the genus Trombicula and related genera, which causes intense itching of human skin

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chig•ger

(ˈtʃɪg ər)

n.

1. Also called harvest mite. the six-legged, bloodsucking larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on vertebrates.

2. chigoe.

[1735–45, Amer.; variant of chigoe]

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Noun

1.

harvest mite - larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation redbug, chigger, jigger 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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Translations

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