Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
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Examples for "cockchafer"
Examples for "cockchafer"
1Did you ever see an orthodox doctor produce a cockchafer like that?
2A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.
3Rowsley threw a daisy at a cockchafer and missed it.
4Still the cockchafer kept on humming, and the lark soared higher in its rapturous song.
5A cockchafer whirred past her and buried itself in a tuft of grass hard by.
1Suddenly some May bugs flew in through the window, but no one noticed them.
2To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial one was expected.