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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult;
[syn: cockchafer, May bug, May beetle, Melolontha melolontha]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cockchafer \Cock"chaf`er\, n. [See Chafer the beetle.] (Zool.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. Melolontha vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle. [1913 Webster] Cockcrow
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cockchafer n 1: any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult [syn: cockchafer, May bug, May beetle, Melolontha melolontha]