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Cockchafer

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Noun

1. cockchafer, may beetle, may bug, melolontha melolontha

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

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Cockchafer

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noun
any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
. Also called: May beetle, May bug

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Cockchafer

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noun
any of several large European scarab beetles whose grubs live in the soil and feed on the roots of plants

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cockchafer

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n.
Any of several large European scarab beetles of the genus Melolontha, especially M. melolontha, having larvae that damage plant roots and adults that feed on leaves.

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