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    GENUS MELOLONTHA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of Melolonthidaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Melolontha; Melolontha

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("genus Melolontha" is a kind of...):

    arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Melolontha"):

    cockchafer; May beetle; May bug; Melolontha melolontha (any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult)

    Holonyms ("genus Melolontha" is a member of...):

    Melolonthidae; subfamily Melolonthidae (considered a separate family in some classification systems)

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