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chig·ger
(chĭg′ər)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.
[Alteration of chigoe.]
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chigger
(ˈtʃɪɡə)n
1. (Animals) Also called: chigoe or 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. (Animals) another name for the chigoe1
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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. |  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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ácaro de la cosechaácaro rojonigua
chigger
n ácaro de la cosecha, ácaro rojo, larva roja de ciertos ácarosEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.