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Cockchafer   Listen
Cockchafer

noun
1.
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.  Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha.





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"Cockchafer" Quotes from Famous Books



... great cockchafer buzzed along. Alas! he caught sight of little Thumbelina. He flew to her, put his claw round her tiny waist and carried her off, ...
— Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories - The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 • Various


Words linked to "Cockchafer" :   May bug, Melolontha, genus Melolontha, melolonthid beetle


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