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MELOLONTHID BEETLE

• MELOLONTHID BEETLE (noun)
The noun MELOLONTHID BEETLE has 1 sense:

1. any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae

Familiarity information: MELOLONTHID BEETLE used as a noun is very rare.

• MELOLONTHID BEETLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("melolonthid beetle" is a kind of...):

scarabaean; scarabaeid; scarabaeid beetle (any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "melolonthid beetle"):

cockchafer; May beetle; May bug; Melolontha melolontha (any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult)

Macrodactylus subspinosus; rose bug; rose chafer (common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines)

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