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may beetle
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Noun may beetle has 2 senses
- may beetle(n = noun.animal) cockchafer, may bug, melolontha melolontha - any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult; Array is a kind of melolonthid beetle
- may beetle(n = noun.animal) june beetle, june bug, may bug - any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.; Array is a kind of scarabaean, scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle
is a member of genus melolontha, melolontha
has particulars: figeater, green june beetle
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