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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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"Chinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... as "bugs." This term, however, is properly used only when referring to the one order of insects which includes the sap and blood-sucking insects such as the chinch bug, bed-bug, squash bug, and the like. Then too, there are many so-called "bugs" which are not insects at all. Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken ...
— An Elementary Study of Insects • Leonard Haseman
... a charm about it which I can not adequately describe. Every product of the farm is furnished by nature with something that loves it, so that it will never be neglected. The grain crop is loved by the weevil, the Hessian fly, and the chinch bug; the watermelon, the squash and the cucumber are loved by the squash bug; the potato is loved by the potato bug; the sweet corn is loved by the ant, thou sluggard; the tomato is loved by the cut-worm; the plum is loved by the curculio, and so forth, and so forth, so that no plant that ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye


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


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