Usually means: Large European beetle, destructive larva.
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  1. cockchafer: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockchafer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cockchafer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cockchafer: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Cockchafer, cockchafer: Wordnik
  7. cockchafer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cockchafer: Wiktionary
  9. cockchafer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cockchafer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cockchafer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cockchafer, cockchafer: Dictionary.com
  13. Cockchafer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cockchafer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cockchafer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Cockchafer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cockchafer: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cockchafer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cockchafer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cockchafer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cockchafer: Encyclopedia

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  1. cockchafer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cockchafer)

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

Similar:
May bug, may beetle, melolontha melolontha, chafer, common cockchafer, rose chafer, European chafer, June bug, flower chafer, rose beetle, more...

Types:
May bug, June bug, Europechafer, Japanese beetle, black beetle, more...

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common cockchafer, more...

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common, great, large, european, old, fat, big, early, artificial, british, certain

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Similar:
May bug, may beetle, melolontha melolontha, chafer, common cockchafer, rose chafer, European chafer, June bug, flower chafer, rose beetle, more...

Types:
May bug, June bug, Europechafer, Japanese beetle, black beetle, more...

Phrases:
common cockchafer, more...

Adjectives:
common, great, large, european, old, fat, big, early, artificial, british, certain

Colors:
    brown,     black,     green,     metallic green,     bronze, more...



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