macrodactylus subspinosus

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   common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines

   Synonymsrose chaferrose bug

   Broadermelolonthid beetle

   Part ofMacrodactylus

Questions about macrodactylus subspinosus

What does macrodactylus subspinosus mean?

macrodactylus subspinosus means "common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines".

What is another word for macrodactylus subspinosus?

Close synonyms include rose chafer, rose bug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is macrodactylus subspinosus a common word?

macrodactylus subspinosus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.