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[syn: chinch bug, Blissus leucopterus]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Chinch \Chinch\, n. [Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. cimex.]
1. (Zool.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the
United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and
other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug,
chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting
odor.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Blissus leucopterus
n 1: small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
[syn: chinch bug, Blissus leucopterus]