(Zool.) 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.
... charm about it which I can not adequately describe. Every product of the farm is furnished by nature with something that loves it, so that it will never be neglected. The grain crop is loved by the weevil, the Hessian fly, and the chinch bug; the watermelon, the squash and the cucumber are loved by the squash bug; the potato is loved by the potato bug; the sweet corn is loved by the ant, thou sluggard; the tomato is loved by the cut-worm; the plum ... — Remarks • Bill Nye
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