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MELOLONTHID BEETLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("melolonthid 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 "melolonthid beetle"):
cockchafer; May beetle; May bug; Melolontha melolontha (any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult)
Macrodactylus subspinosus; rose bug; rose chafer (common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines)
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