chigoe

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Tunga penetrans

Etymology

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.

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Noun

chigoe (plural chigoes)

  1. 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.

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