Sentence example with the word 'chafer'

chafer

Last update: August 13, 2015


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18, 21 b); the body shortened, with the abdomen swollen, but protected with tubercles and spines, and with longish legs adapted for an active life, as in the predaceous larvae of ladybirds; the body soft-skinned, swollen and caterpillar-like, with legs well developed, but leading a sluggish underground life, as in the grub of a chafer; the body soft-skinned and whitish, and the legs greatly reduced in size, as in the wood-feeding grub of a longhorn beetle.   [Please select]

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CHAPTER XXI THE PINE-CHAFER The orthodox denomination of this insect is _Melolontha fullo_, Lin.   [Please select]

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This handsome chafer appears towards the summer solstice, almost simultaneously with the first Cigales.   [Please select]

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The sound-mechanism of the Pine-chafer is thus of the very simplest description.   [Please select]

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] [Footnote 4: For the grub of the Cetonia, or Rose-chafer, cf.   [Please select]

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The Rose-chafer, the Common Cockchafer are but small deer for him.   [Please select]

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He dares to attack the Cicada, he dares to dig his hooks into the corpulent Pine-chafer.   [Please select]

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