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Chinch   Listen
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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"Chinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... and pitiless floods to drown the crops that had been spared by the chinch bugs, the grasshoppers ...
— The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris


Words linked to "Chinch" :   bedbug, Cimex, hemipteran, hemipterous insect, chinch bug


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