Cockchafer
91μηλολόνθαν — μηλολόνθᾱν , μηλολόνθη cockchafer fem acc sg (doric aeolic) …
92μηλολόνθη — cockchafer fem nom/voc sg (attic epic ionic) …
93μηλολόνθην — μηλολόνθη cockchafer fem acc sg (attic epic ionic) …
94μηλολόνθης — μηλολόνθη cockchafer fem gen sg (attic epic ionic) …
95μηλολόνθιον — cockchafer neut nom/voc/acc sg …
96bher-4 — bher 4 English meaning: to roar, buzz, onomatopoeic words Deutsche Übersetzung: in Schallworten “brummen, summen” under likewise Note: An extension at most in *bherem “drone, grumble” and treated onomatopoeic words under bherg… …
97dher-3, dhereu-, dhrē̆ n- — dher 3, dhereu , dhrē̆ n English meaning: expr. (to purr, murmur, etc.), onomatopoeic words Deutsche Übersetzung: Schallwurzel “murmur, brummen, dröhnen” Material: Gk. θόρυβος “ woozy noise”, θορυβέω “make a noise, bewilder”,… …
98chafer — ► NOUN ▪ a large flying beetle of a group including the cockchafer and June bug. ORIGIN Old English …
99mistkafer — Aaron’s Rod, by D.H. Lawrence, has: ‘Come up, you little mistkafer what the Americans call a bug. Come up and be damned.’ Lawrence would have been more accurate to say that Mistkäfer is German for dung beetle. See also Cockchafer, ‘ chafer’… …
100chafer — [chāf′ər] n. [ME < OE ceafor (orig. sense prob. “devourer”) < IE base * ĝebh , jaw, mouth, devour > JOWL1, Ger kiefer, jaw, Ir gob, mouth] any of various beetles (esp. family Scarabaeidae) that feed on plants, as the cockchafer or rose… …