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chigoes

chigoes is the plural of chigoe.

Meaning of chigoe

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.

Questions about chigoes

What is chigoes the plural of?
Chigoes is the plural of chigoe.

Words near chigoes in the dictionary

  1. chignonned
  2. chignons
  3. chigoe
  4. chigoe flea
  5. chigoe fleas
  6. chigoes
  7. chigre
  8. chigres
  9. Chigro
  10. Chigroes
  11. Chigros

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chigoes (page history and authors); chigoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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