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COCKCHAFER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cockchafer mean?
• COCKCHAFER (noun)
The noun COCKCHAFER has 1 sense:
1. any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
Familiarity information: COCKCHAFER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
cockchafer; May beetle; May bug; Melolontha melolontha
Hypernyms ("cockchafer" is a kind of...):
melolonthid beetle (any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae)
Holonyms ("cockchafer" is a member of...):
genus Melolontha; Melolontha (a genus of Melolonthidae)
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