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"etymology_text": "From cock (“male bird”) + chafer (“beetle”). The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that the name may relate to a resemblance of antennae to coxcomb, or to the beetle’s size. Compare French hanneton (“cockchafer”), ultimately from Frankish *hano (“rooster”). Attested from the late seventeenth century.",
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"word": "black-headed pasture cockchafer"
},
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"word": "Acrossidius tasmaniae"
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"word": "brown cockchafer"
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"word": "Rhopaea magnicornis"
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"word": "common cockchafer"
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"word": "Melolontha melolontha"
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"word": "forest cockchafer"
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"word": "Melolontha hippocastani"
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"word": "large cockchafer"
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"word": "Melolontha pectoralis"
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"word": "large white cockchafer"
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"word": "Cyphochilus apicalis"
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"ref": "1793, “Premiums offered by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the year MDCCLXXXVI”, in Transactions of the Society Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volume 4, page 294",
"text": "To the person who shall discover to the Society an effectual method, verified by repeated and satisfactory trials, of destroying the Grub of the Cockchafer, so destructive to the roots of all sorts of Corn, Pease, Beans, and Turneps, the gold medal.",
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"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250",
"text": "His impassioned words buzzed about my ears like cockchafers round the top of the lime-trees.",
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"ref": "1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 2",
"text": "With regard to the playing of the female part by the weaker rats it is interesting to observe that Féré found among insects that the passive part in homosexual relations is favored by fatigue; among cockchafers it was the male just separated from the female who would take the passive part (on the rare occasions when homosexual relations occurred) with a fresh male.",
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"Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation."
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"word": "kotxorro"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "金龜子"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "金龟子"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"word": "meikever"
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "turilas"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"word": "hanneton"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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},
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"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Maikäfer"
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"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "el",
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"roman": "milolónthi",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "cserebogár"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"word": "aldinbori"
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "melolonto"
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"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maggiolino"
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"_dis1": "93 7",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "コフキコガネ"
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"alt": "こがねむし",
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"roman": "koganemushi",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "金亀子"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "май капшангы"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"word": "komaɲaga"
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"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
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"word": "kirmê spî"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "vangoa"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "voangory"
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"word": "driikraab"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
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"word": "oldenborre"
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"word": "хрѫщь"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "مایس بوجكی"
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"word": "سوسک طلایی"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"word": "chrabąszcz majowy"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "dùrdalan"
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"_dis1": "93 7",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "93 7",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
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"word": "vombuolė"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "dùrdalan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "гу̀ндељ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "кебаљ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "хру̑шт"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "gùndelj"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kebalj"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "hrȗšt"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jippuneddu"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chrúst"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chrúst obyčajný"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jaglowac"
},
{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mejski bruk"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "escarabajo sanjuanero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sanjuanero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "melolonta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "abejorro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jorge"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ollonborre"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "majbagge"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "mɛɛng-i-nuun",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "แมงอีนูน"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "mɛɛng-gi-nuun",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "แมงกีนูน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "mayıs böceği"
},
{
"code": "udm",
"lang": "Udmurt",
"roman": "durga",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "дурга"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xrušč",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хрущ"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "travnévyj žuk",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "травне́вий жук"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "travnévyj xrušč",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "травне́вий хрущ"
},
{
"code": "vep",
"lang": "Veps",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "böbörii"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "con bọ da"
},
{
"code": "wym",
"lang": "Vilamovian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mǡjkefer"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "baloujhe"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "åbalowe"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arnicot"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "brouwant"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "maaituorre"
},
{
"code": "zea",
"lang": "Zealandic",
"sense": "beetle of genus Melolontha",
"word": "Schallebieter"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"cockchafer"
],
"word": "cockchafer"
}
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