NOUN | animal | chigger, chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans | small tropical flea |
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animal | chigger, harvest mite, jigger, redbug | larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation |
Meaning | small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans. | |
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Synonyms | chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans | |
Member of | Tunga, genus Tunga | A genus of Siphonaptera |
Broader | flea | Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap |
Spanish | nigua |
Meaning | larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation. | |
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Synonyms | harvest mite, jigger, redbug | |
Member of | Trombicula, genus Trombicula | type genus of the family Trombiculidae |
Broader | trombiculid | mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages / stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial / terrestrial vertebrates |
Spanish | ácaro de la cosecha, ácaros de la cosecha, redbug | |
Catalan | redbug |
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