单词 | chigger |
释义 | chigger (once / 157591 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY chigger: chiggers USAGE EXAMPLESChiggers—common mites in the Midwest that inhabit the grass—were believed responsible. Wall Street Journal(Oct 11, 2016) But the good news is they’re typically just nuisance itches, unlike chigger bites which can destroy tissue. Washington Times(Sep 30, 2016) In 2010, I came in with a rash that turned out to be chiggers I had contracted while doing boot-camp exercises in Fort Knox. Time(Sep 23, 2016) 1 n small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans 2Syn|Hyper Tunga penetrans, chigoe, chigoe flea flea any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap n larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation Syn|Hyper harvest mite, jigger, redbug trombiculid mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates |
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