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Webster 1913 Edition


Cockchafer

Cock′chafˊer

,
Noun.
[See
Chafer
the beetle.]
(Zool.)
A beetle of the genus
Melolontha
(esp.
Melolontha vulgaris
) and allied genera; – called also
May bug
,
chafer
, or
dorbeetle
.

Definition 2024


cockchafer

cockchafer

English

Noun

cockchafer (plural cockchafers)

  1. Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.

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