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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology:
  • Bearing leaves—that is, carrying leaves about in the mouth: as, the leaf-bearing ants.
  • Having leaf-like or foliaceous appendages of the body: as, the leaf-bearing worms. See Phyllodocidæ.

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