chigger

[ chig-er ]

noun
  1. Also called harvest mite, redbug. the six-legged larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on humans and other vertebrates, sucking blood and causing severe itching and acting as a vector of scrub typhus and other infectious diseases.

Origin of chigger

1
1735–45, Americanism; variant of chigoe

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British Dictionary definitions for chigger

chigger

/ (ˈtʃɪɡə) /


noun
  1. 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. another name for the chigoe (def. 1)

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