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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A heteropterous insect, Dysdercus saturellus, which damages cotton in the southern United States and in the West Indies. Also called cotton-stainer.
  • noun A larval mite of the spurious genus Leptus, L. irritans, found commonly in the southern United States: same as jigger, 2.

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