Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Melolonthidæ.
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- noun a genus of Melolonthidae
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Examples
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"It is undoubtedly the _melolontha vulgaris_," said the professor.
Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Virginia Sharpe Patterson 1877
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Had he not made preparations of the very coleoptera the Scarabee studied so exclusively, -- preparations which the illustrious Swammerdam would not have been ashamed of, and dissected a melolontha as exquisitely as Strauss Durckheim himself ever did it?
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Had he not made preparations of the very coleoptera the Scarabee studied so exclusively, -- preparations which the illustrious Swammerdam would not have been ashamed of, and dissected a melolontha as exquisitely as
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"The _melolontha vulgaris_ is the most destructive of beetles, but the larvae are still more injurious.
Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Virginia Sharpe Patterson 1877
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