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cockchafer

English

Etymology

From cock (“male bird”) +? chafer (“beetle”). The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that the name may relate to a resemblance of antennae to coxcomb, or to the beetle’s size. Compare French hanneton (“cockchafer”), ultimately from Frankish *hano (“rooster”). Attested from the late seventeenth century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?k?k?t?e?f?(?)/

Noun

cockchafer (plural cockchafers)

Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.

Synonyms

May bug, doodlebug

Hyponyms

black-headed pasture cockchafer, Acrossidius tasmaniae
brown cockchafer, Rhopaea magnicornis
common cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha
forest cockchafer, Melolontha hippocastani
large cockchafer, Melolontha pectoralis
large white cockchafer, Cyphochilus apicalis

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