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CHINCH BUG

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

• CHINCH BUG (noun)

Sense 1

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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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