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Japanese beetle

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Japanese beetle

▶noun a metallic green and copper chafer which is a pest of fruit and foliage as an adult and of grass roots as a larva. [Popillia japonica.]

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