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MELOLONTHA

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Meaning:

A genus of Melolonthidae

Synonyms:

genus Melolontha; Melolontha

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Melolontha"):

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

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

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

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