Chiggers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 167 anagrams from letters in chiggers (cegghirs).
1735-45, Americanism; variant of chigoe
Four species of the chigger genus Trombicula have been recorded on racers from the Reservation.
Ectoparasites infesting T. ornata are larvae of chigger mites (genus Trombicula) and larvae of bot flies (Sarcophaga cistudinis).
Box turtles were considered to have chigger infestations when the reddish larvae could be detected with the unaided eye.
"chiggerfoot" takes its name from the chigoe, chigger, or jigger, the minute flea which burrows into the foot.
The interlaminal seams and transverse hinges of adults were not infested until the height of the season of chigger activity.
What was most aggravating were two pests of that region, the seed-tick and the chigger.
Loomis in his study of the chigger mites of Kansas examined many of the racers captured in the early years of my field work.