chigoe flea

1. 1.

   small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans

   SynonymschigoechiggerTunga penetrans

   Broaderflea

   Part ofTunga

Questions about chigoe flea

What does chigoe flea mean?

chigoe flea means "small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans".

What is another word for chigoe flea?

Close synonyms include chigoe, chigger, Tunga penetrans. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chigoe flea a common word?

chigoe flea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.