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CHINCH BUG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chinch bug mean?
• CHINCH BUG (noun)
The noun CHINCH BUG has 1 sense:
1. small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
Familiarity information: CHINCH BUG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Blissus leucopterus; chinch bug
Hypernyms ("chinch bug" is a kind of...):
lygaeid; lygaeid bug (a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees)
Holonyms ("chinch bug" is a member of...):
Blissus; genus Blissus (chinch bugs)
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