Leafeater

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any organism that consumes leaves.

    "Eliminate just one kind of tree out of hundreds in such a forest, and some of its pollinators, leafeaters, and woodborers will disappear with it, then various of their parasites and key predators […]"

Example

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"Eliminate just one kind of tree out of hundreds in such a forest, and some of its pollinators, leafeaters, and woodborers will disappear with it, then various of their parasites and key predators […]"

Etymology

From leaf + eater.

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