dictionary definitions for "june"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  June
      n 1: the month following May and preceding July

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  June \June\, n. [L. Junius: cf. F. Juin. So called either from
     Junius, the name of a Roman gens, or from Juno, the goddess.]
     The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.
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           And what is so rare as a day in June?
           Then, if ever, come perfect days.        --Lowell.
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     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
        larv[ae] 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, and Illustration in Appendix.
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