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Definition of Cockchafer
1. Noun. Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
Generic synonyms: Melolonthid Beetle
Group relationships: Genus Melolontha, Melolontha
Definition of Cockchafer
1. n. A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
Definition of Cockchafer
1. Noun. Any of the large European beetles from the genus ''Melolontha'' that are destructive to vegetation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockchafer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockchafer
Literary usage of Cockchafer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"(old).—A male brothel keeper. [Quoted in Grose (1785).] cockchafer,
suis, (thieves').—I. The treadmill. For synonyms, ««WHEEL OF LIFE. 1861-61. ..."
2. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Munuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1896)
"... in which the last three ANTENNA OF cockchafer. joints constituting the club
of the antenna, are of an ovate form, and flattened, so as to lie one on ..."
3. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William B[enjamin] Carpenter (1856)
"... of the Melolontha (cockchafer). Not unfrequently, the centre of the aperture
is occupied by an impervious" disk, from seen in the spiracle of Tipi'la ..."
4. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1835)
"History of the cockchafer, its Ravages—Description of the Larva, Pupa, ...
One of the most destructive is commonly known by the name of cockchafer ..."
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