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Meaning of "cockchafer" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COCKCHAFER

From cock1 + chafer.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COCKCHAFER

cockchafer  [ˈkɒkˌtʃeɪfə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COCKCHAFER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cockchafer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COCKCHAFER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cockchafer

Cockchafer

The cockchafer is a European beetle of the genus Melolontha, in the family Scarabaeidae. Once abundant throughout Europe and a major pest in the periodical years of "mass flight", it had been nearly eradicated in the middle of the 20th century through extensive use of pesticides and has even been locally exterminated in many regions. However, since an increase in regulation of pest control beginning in the 1980s, its numbers have started to grow again.

Definition of cockchafer in the English dictionary

The definition of cockchafer in the dictionary is any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses Also called: May beetle, May bug.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COCKCHAFER


Apocrypha
əˈpɒkrɪfə
aquifer
ˈækwɪfə
chafer
ˈtʃeɪfə
cipher
ˈsaɪfə
conifer
ˈkəʊnɪfə
cypher
ˈsaɪfə
decipher
dɪˈsaɪfə
differ
ˈdɪfə
Haifa
ˈhaɪfə
knifer
ˈnaɪfə
lifer
ˈlaɪfə
lucifer
ˈluːsɪfə
Potiphar
ˈpɒtɪfə
rotifer
ˈrəʊtɪfə
sniffer
ˈsnɪfə
sypher
ˈsaɪfə
tref
ˈtreɪfə
treifa
ˈtreɪfə
UEFA
juːˈeɪfə
wafer
ˈweɪfə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COCKCHAFER

cockamamy
cockapoo
cockateel
cockatiel
cockatoo
cockatrice
Cockayne
cockbill
cockbird
cockboat
Cockcroft
cockcrow
cockcrowing
cocked hat
cocker
cocker spaniel
cockerel
Cockerell
cockernony
cocket

WORDS THAT END LIKE COCKCHAFER

aquafer
bank transfer
buffer
chemin de fer
do-it-yourselfer
dung chafer
golfer
loafer
offer
on offer
penny loafer
prefer
refer
rose chafer
special offer
strafer
subwoofer
suffer
surfer
transfer

Synonyms and antonyms of cockchafer in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cockchafer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COCKCHAFER

Find out the translation of cockchafer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cockchafer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cockchafer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

金龟子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

abejorro
570 millions of speakers

English

cockchafer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cockchafer
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cockchafer
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хрущ
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

besouro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পতঙ্গবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hanneton
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cockchafer
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Maikäfer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cockchafer
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

풍뎅이의 일종
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cockchafer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con bọ hung
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cockchafer
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉकचार्जर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mayıs böceği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maggiolino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chrabąszcz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хрущ
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cărăbuș
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cockchafer
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meikever
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cockchafer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cockchafer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cockchafer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COCKCHAFER»

The term «cockchafer» is normally little used and occupies the 122.727 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COCKCHAFER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cockchafer» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cockchafer» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cockchafer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKCHAFER»

Discover the use of cockchafer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cockchafer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs
The cockchafer belongs to a very large family of beetles, the chafers. These insects have distinctive fanlike clubs at the tips of the antennae. 486 Chafers sometimes occur in vast numbers, and the swarms can. The chafer beetles are ...
‎2002
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Integrated Pest Management for Crops and Pastures
Two types of cockchafers are common pests of pastures and some crops in southeastern Australia, and they are described in Chapter 3. These are the blackheaded pasture cockchafer (BHPC) and the redheaded pasture cockchafer (RHPC).
Paul Horne, Jessica Page, 2008
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Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and Control
cockchafer. Adoryphorus couloni (Burmeister) Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Distribution: Native to Australia. Occurs in NSW, Qld, south eastern SA, western districts of Vic., Tas., and the South Island of New Zealand. Favours sandy loam soils.
PT Bailey, 2007
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A Dictionary of Entomology
AKA Common European Cockchafer. 2. A common name for larval stage of scarab beetles, particularly members of Melolontha in Europe or Adoryphorus and Aphodius in Australia. See Scarabaeidae. Cf. Black-Headed Pasture Cockchafer; ...
‎2011
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Hms Cockchafer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Cockchafer was a Royal Navy Insect class gunboat. She was built by Barclay Curle and launched on 17 December 1915 as the 5th Royal Navy ship to carry this name.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Mixed Bag Stories and Poems
The Cockchafer and the Hedgehog A cockchafer sat on a tiny twig of a large branch of an enormous tree and sighed. It was a beautiful day. The sun shone golden and heaven was a deep blue. But for all that the cockchafer was unhappy.
Anthony Paul Curtis, 2010
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The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science ...
soil in little heaps, and in time will reverse the order of all the articles of the top crust. — Gardener's Magazine, Uses of the Cockchafer. — " Through the columns of the Moniteur Scientifique we learn that nothing can be better to grease ...
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When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish ...
In Freud the light gives rise to “a cockchafer dream,” a dream that deals with cruelty toward beetles kept imprisoned, one of which escapes while the other is squashed (1961, 295). In Kafka's Wedding Preparations in the Country it is the dream ...
Vivian Liska, 2009
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Welkin Weasels (3): Windjammer Run
The shrew settled down outside the cave. Not far away the cockchafer was distracted by this great mammal sitting in front of her home. Sylver could see she was torn between protecting her territory and waiting for this morsel on the bridge .
Garry Kilworth, 2011
10
Beetles of Europe: Cetonia Aurata, Scarlet Lily Beetle, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, Books Llc, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COCKCHAFER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cockchafer is used in the context of the following news items.
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Wildlife in the fast lane
... newly emerged Cockchafer beetle (30mm long with a bronze wing case). These beetles emerge from late May onwards having spent three to ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Jun 15»
2
Fruit harvest in Untermain threatened by cockchafers
Many fruit growers in the Mittenberg district are desperate: the cockchafer population has exploded, more than 50 hectares are afflicted. Now ... «FreshPlaza, May 15»
3
Miniature veggies are making it big in food trends
Remember Thumbelina? That tiny girl who grew out of a barleycorn flower, spurned the advances of a cockchafer and fell in love with a ... «Times of India, Apr 15»
4
Chafer grub Q&A
The different species have different lifecycles, the Garden chafer is one year, the Summer chafer is two years, and the Cockchafer is three years ... «Pitchcare, Apr 15»
5
Anthony Trollope: not as safe as we thought he was?
The signora spitted him, as a boy does a cockchafer on a cork, that she might enjoy the energetic agony of his gyrations. And she knew very ... «OUPblog, Apr 15»
6
Insects crawl onto more menus
For the unfamiliar, a cockchafer could be mistaken for a water bug, but is in fact a giant beetle. The insects were not visible in the final products, ... «Agri News, Apr 15»
7
Crickets, locusts, flies — yum? The case for edible insects
... where bugs were star ingredients in exotic-sounding dishes and beverages, such as ant-infused gin and a cockchafer butter and herb crisp. «Food Dive, Mar 15»
8
Ant gin, cricket soup: Bugs crawl onto menu at Cordon Bleu
First came a vial of ant-infused gin, followed by a shot glass of warm cricket consomme, then an hors d'oeuvre of cockchafer butter and herb ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
9
I'm A Celebrity: Hull City fans will enjoy watching Jungle Jimmy …
... and work out if he's the pratt we always thought he was while a Brown Cockchafer beetle – yes, that's a real thing – climbs up his left nostril. «Hull Daily Mail, Nov 14»
10
Style Invitational Week 1094: TAXI's the fare in Tour de Fours XI …
(Bruce Niedt, Cherry Hill, N.J.) (A cockchafer is a large beetle.) Though the cockchafer's quite a fierce bug, The good news is it's not in your rug. «Washington Post, Oct 14»

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