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Significats de chigoe flea en anglès
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bicho-de-pé A flea of the species Tunga penetrans of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, especially of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs.
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Examples for "jigger"
Examples for "jigger"
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The jigger-mast was cut in two and flew upward like a pipe-stem.
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Several jigger-sized whiskey bottles pillaged from the hotel's minibar littered the nightstand.
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Crash the cull-downwith him-downwith him, before he dubs the jigger.
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A jigger of brandy brought her to, gasping like a blessed mermaid.
5
It's a little jigger. He indicated the first joint of his thumb.
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I'd probably end up with chigger bites up the wazoo thanks to his latest stunt.
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She's from the South, you know, and they have a bug down there called a chigger.
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His skin was covered with the bumps of mosquito and chigger bites, some new, mostly old.
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A chigger would starve to death out here.
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Then she sat on him for several minutes, scratching at the chigger bites on his wet ankles.
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They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus.
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One enterprising and annoying insect, the chigoe, or "jigger," is able to bore a hole through the sole of a shoe and attack the foot.
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The Chigoe lays about sixty eggs, depositing them in a sort of sac on each side of the external opening of the oviduct.
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Still more inconvenient, painful and annoying is another little pest called the chegoe.
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A chegoe once lit upon the back of my hand; wishful to see how he worked, I allowed him to take possession.
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My mother was famous for taking out chegoes, and she showed me the way she managed.
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Every evening, before sundown, it was part of my toilette to examine my feet and see that they were clear of chegoes.
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"Some chegoes have got into your feet, and if they are not taken out quickly they will cause you a great deal of suffering."
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That's like a sand flea or something, right .
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What a family of sand fleas I come from!
3
I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday.
4
Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move.
5
There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
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We were under the orders of Admiral Hugon, "Le Pere la Chique," as the men called him.
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The causative agent, the female flea Tunga penetrans, burrows into the skin of its host, where it develops, produces eggs and eventually dies.
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The rats were exposed in the laboratory to the parasite or were kept in a natural environment with an intense transmission of Tunga penetrans.