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Cockchafer

Cockchafer Meaning & Definition
Cockchafer Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cockchafer?

[n] any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cockchafer: May beetle | May bug | Melolontha melolontha

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cockchafer:

See Also | genus Melolontha | Melolontha | melolonthid beetle

Cockchafer In Webster's Dictionary

\Cock"chaf`er\, n. [See {Chafer} the beetle.] (Zo["o]l.) A beetle of the genus {Melolontha} (esp. {M. vulgaris}) and allied genera; -- called also {May bug}, {chafer}, or {dorbeetle}.

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