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red bug
also red·bug (rĕd′bŭg′)n.
See chigger.
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redbug
(ˈrɛdˌbʌɡ)n
(Animals) US another name for chigger1
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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. | redbug - 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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