Small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans.
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Examples for "chigger"
Examples for "chigger"
1I'd probably end up with chigger bites up the wazoo thanks to his latest stunt.
2She's from the South, you know, and they have a bug down there called a chigger.
3His skin was covered with the bumps of mosquito and chigger bites, some new, mostly old.
4A chigger would starve to death out here.
5Then she sat on him for several minutes, scratching at the chigger bites on his wet ankles.
1They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus.
2One enterprising and annoying insect, the chigoe, or "jigger," is able to bore a hole through the sole of a shoe and attack the foot.
3The Chigoe lays about sixty eggs, depositing them in a sort of sac on each side of the external opening of the oviduct.
1The causative agent, the female flea Tunga penetrans, burrows into the skin of its host, where it develops, produces eggs and eventually dies.
2The rats were exposed in the laboratory to the parasite or were kept in a natural environment with an intense transmission of Tunga penetrans.
Translations for Tunga penetrans