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n. Any of various small, six-legged larvae of mites of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on insects, humans, and other vertebrates. The chigger's bite produces a wheal that is usually accompanied by severe itching. Also called chigoe, harvest bug, harvest mite, jigger2, red bug.

n. See chigoe.

n. A chigoe (Tunga penetrans), a kind of flea found in tropical climates.

n. A harvest mite, a very small, red mite endemic to the Midwestern and Southeastern US, the infestation of which causes intense itching.

n. : (slang, US) derogatory term for an East Asian person who behaves in ways similar to a stereotypical urban African American.

n. a small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans); same as chigoe.

n. a larval mite of the family Trombiculidae that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings, causing intense irritation, and serving to transmit several infectious diseases.

n. A perverted form of chigoe. Compare jigger.

n. small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans

n. larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

"The mite, Mr. Snow informed her, was called a chigger—he advised her to apply mud poultices to her itching legs, a remedy Tasmin adopted with some reluctance, since it rather cut against her vanity."

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