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 Translation for 'cockchafer' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a cockchafer | cockchafers
SYNO cockchafer | May beetle | May bug | ...
skordýrT
aldinbori {k} [Melolontha melolontha]
cockchafer
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Translation for 'cockchafer' from English to Icelandic

cockchafer
aldinbori {k} [Melolontha melolontha]skordýrT
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Usage Examples English
  • An old provincial name, "dumbledor", also denoted a buzzing insect such as a bumblebee or cockchafer, "dumble" probably imitating the sound of these insects, while "dor" meant "beetle".
  • "Holotrichia serrata", commonly known as the sugarcane white grub, or cockchafer grub, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
  • " (cockchafer fly). The currently known text version was distributed by the third volume of the collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (1808).
  • Only with the modernization of agriculture in the 20th century and the invention of chemical pesticides did it become possible to effectively combat the cockchafer.
  • Linnaeus called the European cockchafer "Scarabaeus melolontha".

  • Conspicuous insects include the holly blue, hornets and cockchafer beetles.
  • The red-headed cockchafer or red-headed pasture cockchafer ("Adoryphorus couloni" or "Adoryphorus coulonii") is a species of Australian scarab beetle in the genus "Adoryphorus".
  • In Saint-Nazaire, the ship was converted into a supply oiler for the German battleship [...] and given the code name "Maikäfer" (cockchafer).
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