cockchafer

2 definitions found

cockchafer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cockchafer \Cock"chaf`er\, n. [See Chafer the beetle.] (Zool.)
     A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. Melolontha vulgaris
     ) and allied genera; -- called also May bug,
     chafer, or dorbeetle.
     [1913 Webster] Cockcrow

cockchafer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cockchafer
      n 1: any of various large European beetles destructive to
           vegetation as both larvae and adult [syn: cockchafer,
           May bug, May beetle, Melolontha melolontha]