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Значения термина may bug на английском

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.

Синонимы
Examples for "cockchafer"
Examples for "cockchafer"
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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
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A cockchafer whirred past her and buried itself in a tuft of grass hard by.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
Использование термина may bug на английском
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Suddenly some May bugs flew in through the window, but no one noticed them.
Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs
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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...