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cockchafer

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

cock=chaf=er

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cockchafer has 1 sense

cockchafer(n = noun.animal) may beetle, may bug, melolontha melolontha - any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult;

is a kind of melolonthid beetle

is a member of genus melolontha, melolontha

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cockchafer, n. [See Chafer the beetle.].

A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. Melolontha vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cockchafer, n. a large nocturnal beetle, Melolontha melolontha, which feeds on leaves and whose larva feeds on roots of crops etc. Also called May-bug.

Etymology

perh. f. COCK(1) as expressing size or vigour + CHAFER