| 单词 | garden chafer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarden chafer garden chafer n. a Eurasian beetle with a greenish head and prothorax and reddish-brown wing cases, Phyllopertha horticola (family Scarabaeidae), which feeds on leaves, flowers, fruits, and (in the larval stage) roots, and may become a garden pest. ΚΠ 1833 J. Rennie in Walton's Compl. Angler 286 (note) This is not properly a fly, but a beetle, called the fern, or garden chafer. 1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 800/1 The..garden-chafer or ‘cocker-bundy’ (Phyllopertha horticola),..has a dark green prothorax and brown elytra. 2008 J. Perris All About Bowls ix. 158 The adult garden chafer is about 9mm long. < as lemmas |
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