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rose chafers

rose chafers is the plural of rose chafer.

Meaning of rose chafer

Noun

rose chafer (plural rose chafers)

  1. A metallic-green beetle, Cetonia aurata, with a distinct V-shaped scutellum, native to Eurasia.
    Synonyms:
    green rose chafer, rose beetle, rose bug
  2. (formerly) Any beetle of the subfamily Cetoniinae; a flower chafer.
    • Now and then the "sagueir" makers brought me a fine rosechafer (Sternoplus schaumii) which they found licking up the sweet sap.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 366
  3. A tan-colored beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosus, found in North America.

Questions about rose chafers

What is rose chafers the plural of?
Rose chafers is the plural of rose chafer.

Words near rose chafers in the dictionary

  1. rose bushes
  2. rose camphor
  3. rose campion
  4. rose campions
  5. rose chafer
  6. rose chafers
  7. Rose City
  8. rose cold
  9. rose colds
  10. rose comb
  11. rose combs

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