单词 | jigger flea |
释义 | > as lemmasjigger flea 1. Also jigger flea = chigoe n. The Latin name of the insect is now Tunga penetrans. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Siphonaptera or fleas > [noun] > pulex or sarcopsylla penetrans (chigoe) nigua1555 chigoe1708 pique1748 red-buga1750 jigger flea1756 trigera1757 sand flea1796 tungua1815 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 418 The Chigoe, or Chiger..is very frequent and troublesome in all our sugar-colonies. 1781 H. Smeathman in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 170 I know nothing similar, except in the pulex penetrans of Linnæus, the jigger of the West Indies. 1810 R. Southey Hist. Brazil x. 436 The first settlers suffered terribly from the chiguas or jiggers. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1856) IV. 53 I am speaking of the celebrated Chigoe or Jiggers, called also Nigua, Tungua, and Pique. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 46 In the West Indies the juice of Mammea is employed to destroy the chiggers. 1868 F. Boyle Ride across Continent 68 ‘Neguas’..better known in England by their West Indian name, ‘jiggers’ or ‘chigos’. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 205 A touch of fever on him and jiggers in his feet. 1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 635/1 Several Sepoys were suffering from that African pest the ‘jigger’. 1947 H. Vaughan-Williams Visit to Lobengula xxvii. 176 Arthur's feet suffered badly from jigger fleas—horrid little tiny insects that burrow under the skin and lay a bunch of eggs there in a capsule. 1953 New Biol. 14 120 Tunga penetrans, the tropical jigger flea of man, is the best-known of these [burrowing fleas]. 1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xxxv. 217 Both the male and the female jigger flea are blood-suckers. < as lemmas |
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