Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any
moth whoselarva eats theparenchyma ofleaves , leaving theskeleton behind.
Etymologies
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skeletonize + -er
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