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June bug   /dʒun bəg/   Listen
noun
June  n.  The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days. "And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days."
June beetle, June bug (Zool.), any one of several species of large brown beetles of the genus Lachnosterna and related genera; so called because they begin to fly, in the northern United States, about the first of June. The larvae of the June beetles live under ground, and feed upon the roots of grasses and other plants. Called also May bug or May beetle.
June grass (Bot.), a New England name for Kentucky blue grass. See Blue glass.



June bug  n.  (Zool.)
1.
See june beetle.
2.
A firefly. (Chiefly Northern U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"June bug" Quotes from Famous Books



... paid the least attention, no more'n if the chunk of wood had been a June bug buzzin' past. He just held that wheel hard down and that saved the packet. She come around and put her nose dead in the wind just in time. As 'twas, 'Bije says there was a second when the water by her lee rail looked right underneath him as he hung onto ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

... up for the fresh air! Most of my nights lately have been spent in a hot office with not even a June bug for company. How are ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson



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