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Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
billy witch
May bug
May beetle
Melolontha melolontha
Synonyms
Examples for "
billy witch
"
billy witch
May bug
May beetle
Melolontha melolontha
Examples for "
billy witch
"
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
-
the
May
beetle
.
2
It also eats a small amount of newly planted corn, but at the same time clears the field of
May
beetles
.
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.
6
There have been several photographs of the seasonal
cockchafer
beetle (Maybug).
7
But something like a
cockchafer
flew past his face.
8
You'd better behave pretty, Master Vetch, or 'twill be worse for you, my young
cockchafer
.
9
Left with nothing to say, Dixon realized how wild a notion the
cockchafer
speech had been.
10
The
cockchafer
was charmed with the little maiden.
11
Albine clapped her hands, and said that he looked like a
cockchafer
fastened by a string.
12
His mental operations, indeed, were at first as inconceivable to me as a crab's or a
cockchafer
's
.
13
The nightingales burst into song, a
cockchafer
knocked against him and crept up the back of his neck.
14
Just as they were in the very middle of it, a big
cockchafer
flew into Valiant Vicky's face.
15
Suddenly a great
cockchafer
buzzed along.
16
Therefore, hold aloof, while I deliver judgment, or I will pin thee to the wall like a
cockchafer
.
cockchafer
big cockchafer
deliver the cockchafer
do a cockchafer
early cockchafer
great cockchafer