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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Blissus leucopterus
n : small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
[syn: chinch bug]