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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
cockchafer is a noun meaning "any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult". It carries one recorded sense.
any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cockchafer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.