leafeater

noun

leafeater

noun

Etymology From leaf + eater.

1

Any organism that consumes leaves.

  • Eliminate just one kind of tree out of hundreds in such a forest, and some of its pollinators, leafeaters, and woodborers will disappear with it, then various of their parasites and key predators […]1984, Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia, page 8:

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