1. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
   "The hotel had to fumigate several rooms due to a chinch outbreak";
   - bedbug, bed bug, Cimex lectularius

Derived forms: chinches

Type of: bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect

Part of: Cimex, genus Cimex

Encyclopedia: Chinch