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Definition of Cockchafers
1. cockchafer [n] - See also: cockchafer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockchafers
Literary usage of Cockchafers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"... their heads being buried under the piers, in order that they might be able to
withstand the force of the current. When swarms of locusts or cockchafers, ..."
2. Alcestis: A Musical Novel by Blanche Warre Cornish (1874)
"... OF cockchafers. IN the twilight of a long spring clay, about the middle of
the last century, the Capellmeister was holding a practice in the church ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1863)
"Long-eared owl,—January, February, and March, mice; April, cockchafers; Msy,
rats, squirrels, and cockchafers; June, meal worm, beetles, and shrew mice ..."
4. Our insect enemies by Theodore Wood (1885)
"... presence—Insectivorous birds and their uses—The cockchafer as a pupa—Damage
wrought by the perfect beetles—cockchafers upon the Continent—The June-bug, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... but in an extension of his experiments to other invertebrates, as cockchafers and
... cockchafers ..."
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