Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chigoe . - noun In Cuba and Porto Rico, a name applied to several plants belonging to the genus Tournefortia of the borage family, especially to T. hirsutissima, a trailing shrub with one-sided spikes of flowers resembling those of heliotrope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The chigoe.
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Examples
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[25] The nigua is a small but very dangerous insect which fixes itself in the feet, bores holes in the skin, and lays its eggs there.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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My American Heritage Spanish Dictionary lists pique and nigua for chigger.
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My American Heritage Spanish Dictionary lists pique and nigua for chigger.
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It is a curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity, in the same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the nigua or chegoe (Pulex penetrans).
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The nigua therefore distinguishes what the most delicate chemical analysis could not distinguish, the cellular membrane and blood of a European from those of a creole white.
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The nigua therefore distinguishes what the most delicate chemical analysis could not distinguish, the cellular membrane and blood of a European from those of a creole white.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It is a curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity, in the same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the nigua or chegoe (Pulex penetrans).
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Segunda cancion es "bruca ma nigua" interpretada por la Orqueta Aragon This is a Tourist Vid of my
WN.com - Articles related to Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba: Chavez 2010
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Vacation in CUBA, I hope You like it Guys, the reazon of my vid isn't politic, this is just a remember place i did visit last year, and I'd really enjoy it, a lot of people ask me for who is the people singing here is for you Guys: Songs: the first song: "voy ala calle vapor" by septeto habanero the second song: "bruca ma nigua" by orquesta aragon.
WN.com - Articles related to Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba: Chavez 2010
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Segunda cancion es "bruca ma nigua" interpretada por la Orqueta Aragon This is a Tourist Vid of my
WN.com - Articles related to Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba: Chavez 2010
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