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cockchafers

cockchafers is the plural of cockchafer.

Meaning of cockchafer

Noun

cockchafer (plural cockchafers)

  1. Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
    • To the person who shall discover to the Society an effectual method, verified by repeated and satisfactory trials, of destroying the Grub of the Cockchafer, so destructive to the roots of all sorts of Corn, Pease, Beans, and Turneps, the gold medal.1793, “Premiums offered by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the year MDCCLXXXVI”, in Transactions of the Society Instituted at London, for the Encouragement...
  2. Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.

Phrases with cockchafers

Questions about cockchafers

What is cockchafers the plural of?
Cockchafers is the plural of cockchafer.

Words near cockchafers in the dictionary

  1. cockbulges
  2. Cockburn
  3. Cockburns
  4. Cockburnspath
  5. cockchafer
  6. cockchafers
  7. Cockcroft
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  9. Cockcroft-Walton generators
  10. Cockcrofts
  11. cockcrow

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