Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In entomology, an insect which eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton: as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer, Pempelia hammondi.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology Any moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton behind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton.
Etymologies
- skeletonize + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.”
“Well with Laura's fabulous tip, it looks like you indeed have the western grapeleaf skeletonizer, Harrisina brillians.”
“And, since I now can't touch the grape vines, I'm watching the skeletonizer moth larvae skeletonizing the leaves, leaving the vines bare.”
“For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.”
“The grape-leaf skeletonizer eats every particle of green from the leaves, leaving only the veins.”
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