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Meanings of Melolontha melolontha in English
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
Synonyms
Examples for "cockchafer"
Examples for "cockchafer"
1
Did you ever see an orthodox doctor produce a cockchafer like that?
2
A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.
3
Rowsley threw a daisy at a cockchafer and missed it.
4
Still the cockchafer kept on humming, and the lark soared higher in its rapturous song.
5
A cockchafer whirred past her and buried itself in a tuft of grass hard by.
1
Suddenly some May bugs flew in through the window, but no one noticed them.
2
To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial one was expected.
1
While I was writing this paper the chief enemy of the strawberry came blundering and bumping about my lamp-theMay beetle.
2
It also eats a small amount of newly planted corn, but at the same time clears the field of May beetles.
Translations for Melolontha melolontha
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