Answer: chigoes

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CHIGOESTropical fleas
CHIGOESTroublesome insects.
chigoesflea, Tunga penetrans, of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin, esp. of the feet, of humans and animals and becomes greatly distended with eggs
chigoesa tropical flea (Tunga penetrans) of which the fertile female causes great discomfort by burrowing under the skin
chigoesCHIGOE, a tropical flea