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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chinch \Chinch\, n. [Cf. Sp chinche, fr L. {cimex}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The bedbug ({Cimex lectularius}). 2. (Zo["o]l.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chinch n : bug of temperate regions that infests esp. beds and feeds on human blood [syn: {bedbug}, {bed bug}, {Cimex lectularius}]
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