noun
- Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
- synonyms: cockchafer, May bug, Melolontha melolontha
- Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc..
- synonyms: June beetle, June bug, May bug
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