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chinch bug

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chinch bug also cinch bug
n. Chiefly Southern & Midland U.S.
1. A small black and white insect (Blissus leucopterus) that is very destructive to grains and grasses.
2. See bedbug.
chinch bug
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a related and similar European insect, Ischnodemus sabuleti
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Noun1.chinch bugchinch bug - small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
Blissus leucopterus
lygaeid, lygaeid bug - a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees
Blissus, genus Blissus - chinch bugs


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It was a hard bargain, but one that Wade could afford to take up, for if the wheat were to freeze out, or if the grasshoppers should eat it, or the chinch bugs ruin it, or a hail storm beat it down into the mud, or if any of the many hatreds Stepmother Nature holds out toward those trusting souls who would squeeze a living from her hard hands--if any of these misfortunes should transpire, he would be out nothing but labor, and that was the one thing he and Martin could afford to risk.
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