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Meanings of May beetle in English

Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.

        Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.

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              Examples for "cockchafer"
              Examples for "cockchafer"
              1
              Did you ever see an orthodox doctor produce a cockchafer like that?
              Tell England / A Study in a Generation
              2
              A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.
              The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
              3
              Rowsley threw a daisy at a cockchafer and missed it.
              Nightfall
              4
              Still the cockchafer kept on humming, and the lark soared higher in its rapturous song.
              Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
              5
              A cockchafer whirred past her and buried itself in a tuft of grass hard by.
              The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
              1
              Suddenly some May bugs flew in through the window, but no one noticed them.
              Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs
              2
              To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial one was expected.
              Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
              Usage of May beetle in English
              1
              While I was writing this paper the chief enemy of the strawberry came blundering and bumping about my lamp-theMay beetle.
              The Home Acre
              2
              It also eats a small amount of newly planted corn, but at the same time clears the field of May beetles.
              Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation