Usage of "May bug" | TermGallery

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"

Did you ever see an orthodox doctor produce a cockchafer like that? 
 Tell England / A Study in a Generation 

A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us. 
 The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds 

Rowsley threw a daisy at a cockchafer and missed it. 
 Nightfall 

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 

A cockchafer whirred past her and buried itself in a tuft of grass hard by. 
 The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories 

Uso de May bug en inglés

Suddenly some May bugs flew in through the window, but no one noticed them. 
 Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs 

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... 

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Significados de May bug en inglés