harvest mite

1. 1.

   larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

   Synonymschiggerjiggerredbug

   Broadertrombiculid

   Part ofTrombicula

Questions about harvest mite

What does harvest mite mean?

harvest mite means "larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation".

What is another word for harvest mite?

Close synonyms include chigger, jigger, redbug. 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 harvest mite a common word?

harvest mite 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.