"melolonthid beetle" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae (synset 102177007)
is a type of: scarabaean, scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle - any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes
subtypes:
- cockchafer, may beetle, may bug, melolontha melolontha - any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
- macrodactylus subspinosus, rose bug, rose chafer - common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines