JAPANESE BEETLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia; serious plant pest in North America

Synonyms:

Japanese beetle; Popillia japonica

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Japanese beetle" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Japanese beetle" is a member of...):

genus Popillia; Popillia (a genus of Scarabaeidae)

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