COCKCHAFER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cockchafer; May beetle; May bug; Melolontha melolontha

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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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