chinch

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chinch / chinch/ (also chinch bug / sinch/ ) • n. a plant-eating ground bug (family Lygaeidae) that forms large swarms on grasses and rushes.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

chinch bug

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chinch bug See LYGAEIDAE.

A Dictionary of Zoology MICHAEL ALLABY

chinch

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chinch bed-bug. XVII. — Sp. chinche :- L. cimex, -ic-.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

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