Search Result for "chinch":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood;
[syn: bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius]
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]
