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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In entomology, an insect which eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton: as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer, Pempelia hammondi.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton.

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  • noun zoology Any moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton behind.

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skeletonize +‎ -er

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