JUNE BEETLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.

Synonyms:

June beetle; June bug; May beetle; May bug

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("June beetle" is a kind of...):

scarabaean; scarabaeid; scarabaeid beetle (any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "June beetle"):

figeater; green June beetle (large greenish June beetle of southern United States)