1) Beetle
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1) May beetle 2) May bug 3) Melolontha melolontha 4) Melolonthid beetle
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M. hippocastani Fabricius, 1801 The cockchafer (colloquially called May bug, mitchamador, billy witch, or spang beetle, particularly in East Anglia) is a European beetle of the genus Melolontha, in the family Scarabaeidae. Once abundant throughout Europe and a major pest in the periodical years of `mass flight`, it had been nearly eradicated in .....
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• (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
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a large European beetle that is destructive to foliage, flowers, and fruit as an adult and to plant roots as a larva. In the British Isles, the name ... [1 related articles]
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Cock'chaf`er noun [ See
Chafer the beetle.]
(Zoology) A beetle of the genus
Melolontha (esp.
M. vulgaris ) and allied genera; -- called also
May bug ,
chafer , or
dorbeetle .
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The cockchafer (Melolontha vulgaris) is a common European beetle, about three centimetres long and destructive to the foliage of fruit and forest trees.
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HMS Cockchafer was a British River Gunboat of 625 tons displacement designed by the Yarrow company during the Great War and launched in 1915. HMS Cockchafer was powered by Yarrow boilers providing a top speed of 14 knots. She carried a complement of between 54 and 65 and was armed with two 6 inch guns; one 3 inch anti-aircraft gun and ten smaller g...
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n] - any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
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Scarab - a family of beetles that have distinctively shaped antennae and are often metallic in colouration.
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May bug 1 May beetle 1 Melolontha melolontha noun any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
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European beetle
Melolontha melolontha, of the scarab family, up to 3 cm/1.2 in long, with clumsy, buzzing flight, seen on early summer evenings. Cockchafers damage trees by feeding on the foliage and flowers
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any of certain scarab beetles, esp. the European species, Melolontha melolontha, which is very destructive to forest trees.
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