Portuguese
bicho-de-pé Small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans.
Synonyms
Examples for "chigger"
Examples for "chigger"
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I'd probably end up with chigger bites up the wazoo thanks to his latest stunt.
2
She's from the South, you know, and they have a bug down there called a chigger.
3
His skin was covered with the bumps of mosquito and chigger bites, some new, mostly old.
4
A chigger would starve to death out here.
5
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.
2
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.
3
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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The causative agent, the female flea Tunga penetrans, burrows into the skin of its host, where it develops, produces eggs and eventually dies.
2
The rats were exposed in the laboratory to the parasite or were kept in a natural environment with an intense transmission of Tunga penetrans.