cockchafer in English
noun
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a large brown European beetle that flies at dusk and often crashes into lighted windows. The adults are damaging to foliage and flowers, and the larvae are a pest of cereal and grass roots.
What a pleasant change from the labourer's unvarying meal of bread, lard, and bacon would be a good dish of fried cockchafers or grasshoppers!
noun
may bug
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1. Chafer definition: any of various scarabaeid beetles , such as the cockChafer and rose Chafer Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
2. CockChafer definition is - a large European beetle (Melolontha melolontha) destructive to vegetation as an adult and to roots as a larva; also : any of various related beetles.
3. Definition of Chafer : any of various scarab beetles (such as a cockChafer) that feed on leaves and flowers and whose larvae feed on plant roots First Known Use of Chafer before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above