(n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
(n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of certain cations present in hemolymph and alimentary tract tissues of healthy and diseased European chafer larvae and the spores of Bacillus popilliae collected from diseased hemolymph.
Cockchafer
Definition:
(n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
Example Sentences:
(1) locusts, cockchafers, moths, water-bugs); and muscles that have a high enzyme activity, i.e.
(2) The superposition eye of the cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha, exhibits the typical features of many nocturnal and crepuscular scarabaeid beetles: the dioptric apparatus of each ommatidium consists of a thick corneal lens with a strong inner convexity attached to a crystalline cone, that is surrounded by two primary and 9-11 secondary pigment cells.
(3) All corpus cardiacum material tested, except that from the cockchafer, M. hippocastani, gave positive bioassay results.
(4) We suggest that the dorsal rim area of the cockchafer eye subserves the same function and that the beetles use the polarization pattern of the sky for orientation during their migrations.