Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of certain fetid American hemipterous insects of the genus Blissus, somewhat resembling the bedbug, very destructive to wheat, maize, etc., in the southern and western United States. Also chinch, chink-bug.
- noun The bedbug.
- noun An American lygæid bug, Nysius angustatus, frequently mistaken for the chinch-bug. It is wide-spread and damages grape-vines, strawberry-plants, and garden vegetables. See
Nysius , with cut.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word chinch-bug.
Examples
-
Hessian fly, the chinch-bug and the grain plant-louse or green-bug.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
-
The chinch-bug is responsible for the loss of five per cent., or one bushel out of every twenty.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
-
Almost equally important is the damage wrought by the chinch-bug, which is also one of the greatest pests in wheat and oats.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
-
This bird is one of the few that feeds upon that unsavory insect, the chinch-bug; and the number of this pest that occasionally are destroyed by it is really astonishing.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
-
It also occasionally feeds upon the chinch-bug, as can be attested by the fact that the stomach of a specimen killed near Lincoln contained in the vicinity of one thousand of these bugs.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
-
If the drought comes, or the flood, or the chinch-bug, or the brown-tailed moth, you may find yourself floundering in the mulligatawney.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
-
The insects which feed on it are described, viz: a "chinch-bug," and the mole known as the gopher in Southern Illinois.
-
Not a spear of cheat in it. An 'this one good year the Hessian fly an' the chinch-bug has let us alone. "
Dialect Tales 1883
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.