| chigger | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. chigger, chigoe, chigoe flea, tunga penetrans | small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans. |
| ~ flea | any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap. |
| ~ genus tunga, tunga | a genus of Siphonaptera. |
| n. (animal) | 2. chigger, harvest mite, jigger, 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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