Chigoe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 58 anagrams from letters in chigoe (ceghio).
Borrowed into English from Carib around 1685-95
Probably the common flea and the chigoe would form distinct genera.
Sarcopsylla, sr-kop-sil′a, n. a genus of American insects, including the jigger or chigoe.
Occasionally a gorilla or a chimpanzee may get a chigoe in its toe.
It is like the red "chigoe" which inserts his tiny head in the flesh and burrows until he causes a throbbing fester.
The chigoe remained the only member of the family known to scientific entomologists until the year 1860.
All the chigoe family have eyes; but in one recently discovered species the eye is very small and devoid of pigment.
In hot countries the chigoe (Dermatophilus penetrans) is a serious and troublesome pest, particularly to bare-footed people.
The chigoe (Dermatophilus penetrans) is a native originally of South America.
Passing to the fleas, the most important and truly parasitic form is the chigoe or gigger (Pulex penetrans).
The chigoe lays about sixty eggs, depositing them in a sort of sac on each side of the external opening of the oviduct.