June bug

Noun

Meaning

any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

June beetle May bug May beetle click beetle cockchafer Ayatollah Khomeini ground beetle rose chafer green June beetle inner city dung beetle Japanese beetle dor beetle garden chafer European chafer

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Hypernyms

scarabaeid scarabaean scarabaeid beetle

Hyponyms

green June beetle figeater

Examples

It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise. Mark Twain

There's a type of bug that latches on, lays an egg where the June bug can't reach it, and then the egg hatches and eats the host from the inside out. Source: Internet

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