Definitions for chigger

chigger chig·ger

Spelling: [chig-er]
IPA: /ˈtʃɪg ər/

Chigger is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in chigger (cegghir).

Definitions for chigger

noun

  1. Also called harvest mite, redbug. the six-legged larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on humans and other vertebrates, sucking blood and causing severe itching and acting as a vector of scrub typhus and other infectious diseases.
  2. chigoe.

Origin of chigger

1735-45, Americanism; variant of chigoe

Examples for chigger

Box turtles were considered to have chigger infestations when the reddish larvae could be detected with the unaided eye.

Ectoparasites infesting T. ornata are larvae of chigger mites (genus Trombicula) and larvae of bot flies (Sarcophaga cistudinis).

"chiggerfoot" takes its name from the chigoe, chigger, or jigger, the minute flea which burrows into the foot.

Loomis in his study of the chigger mites of Kansas examined many of the racers captured in the early years of my field work.

Four species of the chigger genus Trombicula have been recorded on racers from the Reservation.

What was most aggravating were two pests of that region, the seed-tick and the chigger.

The interlaminal seams and transverse hinges of adults were not infested until the height of the season of chigger activity.

Word Value for chigger
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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