Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plant-eating scarab beetles, such as the rose chafer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which chafes.
- noun A vessel for heating water, food, etc.; a chafing-dish.
- noun Hence Any dish or pan.
- noun A small portable furnace; a chauffer. E. H. Knight. Also
chaffer . - noun A name commonly given to several species of lamellicorn beetles, Scarabæidæ
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species.
- noun One who chafes.
- noun A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
scarab beetles , including thecockchafer , leaf chafer androse chafer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I believe, in contradiction to most etymologists, that the Egyptian scarab, chepera, is our word chafer, French cafard, and possibly Italian scarafaggio.
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There are 196 species of butterflies (49% of Kwazulu-Natal species), 52 species of dragonflies (23% of South African species), 139 species of dung-beetles, 27 species of hole-nesting wasps, 64 species of biting flies (64% of South African tabanids), 58 species of chafer beetles (cetonids) and 41 species of land snails.
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Onions repel aphids, rose chafer beetle and carrot flies, weevils, moles, fruit tree borers it controls rust flies and some nematodes and especially protects tomatoes against red spiders.
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The small remaining areas of coastal tussocks, such as Poa astonii, provide habitat for several species with limited distributions including an endemic chafer beetle, Prodontria praelatella.
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He let it in, caught it, and it turned out to be a common rose chafer—a beetle closely resembling a golden scarab.
ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006
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He let it in, caught it, and it turned out to be a common rose chafer—a beetle closely resembling a golden scarab.
ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006
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He let it in, caught it, and it turned out to be a common rose chafer—a beetle closely resembling a golden scarab.
ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006
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I was much pleased to get here the fine long-armed chafer, Euchirus longimanus.
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Love them, though, that she could! — and she hugged Peterle to her great bosom, which — NICHT WAHR, MEINE LIEBEN? — they would have judged able to nourish the dozen of which she dreamed; whereas, if they could credit it, for her treasure, her well-beloved little cock-chafer, it had yielded not so much as a mouthful.
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Flying insects have absolutely no tail, and so drift along like a rudderless vessel, and beat against anything they happen upon; and this applies equally to sharded insects, like the scarab-beetle and the chafer, and to unsharded, like bees and wasps.
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