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JUNE BUG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does June bug mean?
• JUNE BUG (noun)
The noun JUNE BUG has 1 sense:
1. any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
Familiarity information: JUNE BUG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
June beetle; June bug; May beetle; May bug
Hypernyms ("June bug" is a kind of...):
scarabaean; scarabaeid; scarabaeid beetle (any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "June bug"):
figeater; green June beetle (large greenish June beetle of southern United States)
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