melolontha

English Thesaurus

1. a genus of Melolonthidae (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod genus,
definition	:	a genus of arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	cockchafer, may beetle, may bug, melolontha melolontha,
definition	:	any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	melolonthidae, subfamily melolonthidae,
definition	:	considered a separate family in some classification systems (noun.animal)