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chinch bug

noun

  1. a small lygaeid bug, Blissus leucopterus, that feeds on corn, wheat, and other grains.


chinch bug

noun

  1. a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
  2. a related and similar European insect, Ischnodemus sabuleti
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chinch bug1

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Example Sentences

Proletarians for the most part wish, chinch-bug fashion, to crawl into the Elysian fields now occupied by the hated capitalists.

Such well-known insects as the Bed-bug and Chinch-bug belong here.

The chinch bug alone has demonstrated his power to devastate the wheat fields.

Ain't de chinch-bug done et up de wheat, jes' as I tole yer?

Write to the Division of Entomology, Washington, for bulletins on the chinch bug.

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