chigoe

Significat (Anglès)

A small tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, whose females burrow under the skin of animals, including humans, and lay their eggs, causing strong irritation and sores.

Sinònims

chigger

chigoe flea

Tunga penetrans

jigger

sand flea

beach buggy

Traduccions

puce-chique

aoutat

aoûtat

tunga penetrans

Tunga penetrans

pulce penetrante

bicho-de-pé

Bicho-de-pé

σαρκοψύλλος ο διεισδύων

nigua

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɡoʊ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Uncertain. Possibly from a Cariban language term such as Kari'na siko (“chigoe”) (early recorded variant chico), from Proto-Cariban *tikô, or else a West African borrowing such as Wolof or Yoruba jiga (“insect”). The eighteenth century historian Charlevoix refers to them as chique in his 1730 history of Hispaniola.