Usage of "May beetle"

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.

Synonyms

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 

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... 

Usage of May beetle in inglês

While I was writing this paper the chief enemy of the strawberry came blundering and bumping about my lamp-theMay beetle. 
 The Home Acre 

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 

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Meanings of May beetle in inglês