Old Ligon tells us he had ten Chigoes taken out of his feet in a morning "by the most unfortunate Yarico,"[1058] whose tragical story is now so celebrated in prose and verse.
Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few hours.
The plan usually followed in the Brazils to prevent the chigoes from injuring the feet, is to employ children, who, by their sharpness of sight, can easily perceive the red spot on the skin where the chigo has entered.
The chigoes are an object of terror to the Brazilian negroes.
The only true fleas found on these are two species of the genus Vermipsylla, which resemble the chigoes in so far that the pregnant females burrow into the host and expand there.
Collectors in warm countries should give their attention to the chigoes and their allies, which are of great interest and have been little studied.
Small mammals may be transferred, with theirchigoes attached, to a bottle of alcohol.
These are the burrowing chigoes and their allies which usually attack the head and ears of rats.
A female of one of the species of burrowing chigoes (Echidnophaga ambulans) from Australia was collected by Dr Woodward from the Brown Snake (Diemenia superciliosa).
The chigoes and their allies present an extreme case: for the legs are practically useless for holding on.
In the chigoes and their allies the rostrum is reduced, not in length, but in stiffness and in number of segments.
The modification found in the rostrum of the chigoes has already been referred to, and the explanation of this will now be understood.
The peculiar development of the mouth-parts is one of the most singular features in the structure of the chigoes and their relatives.
To this group belong the chigoes and their allies, the most truly parasitic fleas.
We shall find in the chigoes and their allies a rostrum which is pale, weak, soft and scarcely horny.
The truth seems to be that other chigoes are attracted to a spot where inflammation has made it easy to burrow.
In the chigoes they are directed obliquely forwards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chigoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
