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cockchafer

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒkˌt͡ʃeɪfɚ/Part of speech nounSorted acccefhkorStarts with CEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult

Word origin

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 *hanō (“rooster”). First attested in the late 17th century.

Used in a sentence

  • His impassioned words buzzed about my ears like cockchafers round the top of the lime-trees.

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