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Cockchafer

noun
1.
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.  Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha.






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"Cockchafer" Quotes from Famous Books



... and cleaned the rooms on the ground-floor, then he went to his garden, where weed or damaging insect was never seen. Sometimes Gasselin was observed motionless, bare-headed, under a burning sun, watching for a field-mouse or the terrible grub of the cockchafer; then, as soon as it was caught, he would rush with the joy of a child to show his masters the noxious beast that had occupied his mind for a week. He took pleasure in going to Croisic on fast-days, to purchase a fish to be had for less ...
— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac

... Huxley at the Royal College of Science, "probably the best biological treatise ever written." Many naturalists have written elaborate monographs on single animals: Lyonet worked for years on the willow caterpillar, Strauss Durckheim devoted an even minuter attention to the common cockchafer, and the great Bojanus investigated almost every fibre in the structure of the tortoise. The volumes produced by these anatomists were valuable and memorable, and occupy an honoured place in the ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... "Cockchafer," said Vane softly, and he knew that it had blundered up against some twig and fallen to earth, where, though he could not see it, he knew that it was lying upon its back sprawling about with its awkward-looking legs, vainly trying ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn



Words linked to "Cockchafer" :   genus Melolontha, May bug, May beetle, Melolontha, melolonthid beetle, Melolontha melolontha



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