Search Result for "blissus_leucopterus":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses;
[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]