Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
phytophagous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Phytophagous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
phytophagous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of animals) feeding on plants
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Examples
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D. Walsh, a distinguished entomologist of the United States, has described what he calls phytophagic varieties and phytophagic species.
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But no observer can determine for another, even if he can do so for himself, which of these phytophagic forms ought to be called species and which varieties.
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Professor Meldola seemed disposed to think that the variations of colour of some of the species might be phytophagic -- that is, due to the direct action of the differently coloured leaves on which the insect fed.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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