June bug

June bug
    n 1: any of various large usually brown North American leaf-
         eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on
         roots of grasses etc. [syn: {June beetle}, {June bug}, {May
         bug}, {May beetle}]
    

June bug \June" bug`\, n. (Zool.)
   1. See {june beetle}.
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   2. A {firefly}. [Chiefly Northern U. S.]
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June \June\, n. [L. Junius: cf. F. Juin. So called either from
   Junius, the name of a Roman gens, or from Juno, the goddess.]
   The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.
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         And what is so rare as a day in June?
         Then, if ever, come perfect days.        --Lowell.
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   {June beetle}, {June bug} (Zool.), any one of several species
      of large brown beetles of the genus {Lachnosterna} and
      related genera; -- so called because they begin to fly, in
      the northern United States, about the first of June. The
      larv[ae] of the June beetles live under ground, and feed
      upon the roots of grasses and other plants. Called also
      {May bug} or {May beetle}.

   {June grass} (Bot.), a New England name for Kentucky blue
      grass. See {Blue glass}, and Illustration in Appendix.
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Dor \Dor\, n. [Cf. AS. dora drone, locust, D. tor beetle, L.
   taurus a kind of beetle. Cf. {Dormouse}.] (Zool.)
   A large European scaraboid beetle ({Geotrupes stercorarius}),
   which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also
   applied to allied American species, as the {June bug}. Called
   also {dorr}, {dorbeetle}, or {dorrbeetle}, {dorbug},
   {dorrfly}, and {buzzard clock}.
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