chigoe

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The floor was planked, not, as I found, from any regard for the comfort of the slaves, but because a small insect, a species of chigoe, which is in the soil, might get into the flesh of the poor creatures, and produce a disease which might ultimately kill them.

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  1. noun A small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans), the fertilized female of which burrows under the skin of animals and humans, causing intense irritation and sores that may become severely infected. Also called chigger, jigger2, sand flea.
  2. noun See chigger.

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  • The skin may still require bland ointments or lotions, as for congestion PARASITE: Larva of a Trombidium, Leptus americanus, or harvest bug, misnamed jigger (chigoe). —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Other animals should be kept free from fleas or kept away from the vicinity of the stable The chigoe (_Pulex penetrans_) of the Gulf coast is still more injurious, because it burrows under the surface and deposits its eggs to be hatched out slowly with much irritation. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • The floor was planked, not, as I found, from any regard for the comfort of the slaves, but because a small insect, a species of chigoe, which is in the soil, might get into the flesh of the poor creatures, and produce a disease which might ultimately kill them. —  The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa
  • The little fish is Pimelodes cyclopum (preńadilla of the Spaniards, imba of the Indians), the same that was thrown out in the eruptions of Imbabura and Caraguairazo Footnote 47: The jigger, chigoe, or nigua (_Pulex penetrans of science) is a microscopic flea, that buries itself under the skin and lays a myriad eggs; the result is a painful tumor. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • It is like the red "chigoe" which inserts his tiny head in the flesh and burrows until he causes a throbbing fester. —  The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
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  1. Possibly from Galibi chico or of African origin; see jigger2.

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  1. Also written chigo, chegoe, chigga, chiggre, jigger, etc.; = French chique; of West Indian or South American origin.
 

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