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ampelophagous

ampelophagous adjective: feeding on grapevines.

Adjective

ampelophagous (not comparable)

  1. Feeding on grapevines.
    • These two vectors have different lifestyles–the former strictly ampelophagous and the latter polyphagous, only occasionally feeding on grapevine – and dissimilar biological features, which may reflect diversely affiliated microbial communities.2010, Phyllis G. Weintraub, Phytoplasmas: Genomes, Plant Hosts and Vectors, page 282

Origin of ampelophagous

From ampelo- + -phagous.

Questions about ampelophagous

What does ampelophagous mean?
Ampelophagous means feeding on grapevines.
What part of speech is ampelophagous?
Ampelophagous is an adjective.

Words near ampelophagous in the dictionary

  1. ampelographist
  2. ampelographists
  3. ampelography
  4. ampelology
  5. ampelometric
  6. ampelophagous
  7. ampelopsin
  8. ampelopsins
  9. ampelopsis
  10. ampelopsises
  11. ampeloside

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