- the six-legged larva of a mite of the family Trombiculidae, parasitic on humans and other vertebrates, sucking blood and causing severe itching and acting as a vector of scrub typhus and other infectious diseases.
- chigoe.
- the parasitic larva of any of various free-living mites of the family Trombidiidae, which causes intense itching of human skin
- another name for the chigoe (def. 1)
