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Definition of Chafer
1. n. One who chafes.
2. n. A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Definition of Chafer
1. Noun. Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer and rose chafer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chafer
1. a large beetle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chafer
Literary usage of Chafer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"The rose chafer is destructive only in sandy regions; leaf- hoppers are always
present in ... The rose chafer does not confine its attacks to the grape, ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"chafer, COCK-chafer, a kind of beetle. (E,). 'Rigu-. larly formed from AS «a/or or
... a chafer. ..."
3. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1904)
"The Green Rose chafer. Cetonia aurata, Linn. The larvae have been reported from
the Counties of Worcester and Stafford, and the beetle from Warwick. ..."
4. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United by George Edward Cokayne (1889)
"King of England," the Earldom of chafer (as also his other peerage dignities)
lapsed XV. ... chafer ..."
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