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rose chafer

☆ a small North American scarab beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus) that, as a larva, feeds on plant roots, and, as an adult, on leaves and flowers
also called rose bug

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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