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Definition of chinch in English: chinch(also chinch bug) noun tʃɪn(t)ʃtʃɪn(t)ʃ A plant-eating ground bug that forms large swarms on grasses and rushes. 麦长蝽 Two species in the family Lygaeidae, suborder Heteroptera: the American Blissus leucopterus and the European Ischnodemus sabuleti Example sentencesExamples - Soybeans are not a chinch bug host and would be a better choice in these areas.
- He chuckles, ‘There's nothing a quail likes as much as a chinch bug.’
- The chinch bug is a native North American insect that can destroy cultivated grass crops, especially sorghum and corn, and occasionally small grains, such as wheat and barley.
- The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
- Although chinch bug numbers are not high in most fields, growers should check fields frequently during the next couple of weeks to identify problem fields.
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense 'bedbug'): from Spanish chinche, from Latin cimex, cimic-. Definition of chinch in US English: chinch(also chinch bug) nountʃɪn(t)ʃCHin(t)SH A plant-eating ground bug that forms large swarms on grasses and rushes. 麦长蝽 Two species in the family Lygaeidae, suborder Heteroptera: the American Blissus leucopterus, which is a major pest of cereal crops, and the European Ischnodemus sabuleti Example sentencesExamples - The chinch bug is a native North American insect that can destroy cultivated grass crops, especially sorghum and corn, and occasionally small grains, such as wheat and barley.
- The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
- Although chinch bug numbers are not high in most fields, growers should check fields frequently during the next couple of weeks to identify problem fields.
- Soybeans are not a chinch bug host and would be a better choice in these areas.
- He chuckles, ‘There's nothing a quail likes as much as a chinch bug.’
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense ‘bedbug’): from Spanish chinche, from Latin cimex, cimic-. |