'Cockchafer' definitions:
Definition of '
cockchafer
'
From:
WordNet
noun
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult [syn: cockchafer,
May bug
,
May beetle
,
Melolontha melolontha
]
Definition of '
Cockchafer
'
From:
GCIDE
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
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