Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chigger

2 senses of chigger

Sense 1
chigoe, chigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans -- (small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans)
       => flea -- (any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap)

Sense 2
harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug -- (larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation)
       => trombiculid -- (mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates)