cockchafer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cockchafer
Example Sentences
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And none of it will stop the real culprit, which, it turns out, is the cockchafer and leatherjacket grubs, which bury their larvae under the grass.
From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2013
Like a toy car with transparent wings whirring out of open doors, the cockchafer blundered into the first light it detected.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012
Like a blue cockchafer crawling onto a floating chip of wood, Naval Lieutenant Alfred J. William's Schneider Cup mono-seaplane Mercury floated on the Severn River off Annapolis last week, her nose in a barge.
From Time Magazine Archive
The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
“Because,” rejoined the cockchafer, “you and we are old acquaintances, for we spend two or three months in your gardens every year.”
From Bo-Peep Story Books by Chatelain, Clara de
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