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JUNE BUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does June bug mean? 

JUNE BUG (noun)
  The noun JUNE BUG has 1 sense:

1. any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.play

  Familiarity information: JUNE BUG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JUNE BUG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

June beetle; June bug; May beetle; May bug

Hypernyms ("June bug" is a kind of...):

scarabaean; scarabaeid; scarabaeid beetle (any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "June bug"):

figeater; green June beetle (large greenish June beetle of southern United States)


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