Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Chinch \Chinch\, n. [Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. {cimex}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The bedbug ({Cimex lectularius}).
2. (Zo["o]l.) A bug ({Blissus leucopterus}), which, in the
United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and
other grains; -- also called {chiniz}, {chinch bug},
{chink bug}. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting
odor.
Source : WordNet®
chinch
n : bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and
feeds on human blood [syn: {bedbug}, {bed bug}, {Cimex
lectularius}]