chigoe

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Έννοιες

σαρκοψύλλος ο διεισδύων

Συνώνυμα

chigger

chigoe flea

Tunga penetrans

jigger

sand flea

beach buggy

Μεταφράσεις

puce-chique

aoûtat

tunga penetrans

Tunga penetrans

pulce penetrante

bicho-de-pé

Bicho-de-pé

aoutat

nigua

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɡoʊ/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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.