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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any one of more than a hundred species of beetles which live upon the willow; specifically, a leaf-beetle, Phyllodecta vitellinæ, which damages willows in England and on the continent of Europe, its larvæ feeding on the leaves and pupating underground.

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