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Chinch
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noun
Chinch
n.
1.
(Zool.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
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.
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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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"Chinch" Quotes from Famous Books
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and pitiless floods to drown the crops that had been spared by the
chinch
bugs, the grasshoppers
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— The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris
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