chigoe
n. 穿皮潜蚤, 恙螨 [医] 沙蚤, 穿皮潜蚤
发音
/ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɡoʊ/
词形变化
chigoes
复数
chigoes
别名
chegoe
chegre
chigre
djigga
释义与例句
n.
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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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词源
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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