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leafeater

leafeater noun: any organism that consumes leaves.

Noun

leafeater (plural leafeaters)

  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

Forms of leafeater

pluralleafeaters

Origin of leafeater

From leaf + eater.

Questions about leafeater

What does leafeater mean?
Leafeater means any organism that consumes leaves.
What part of speech is leafeater?
Leafeater is a noun.
What is the plural of leafeater?
The plural of leafeater is leafeaters.

Words near leafeater in the dictionary

  1. leafcutter bee
  2. leafcutter bees
  3. leafcutters
  4. leafcutting
  5. leafdom
  6. leafeater
  7. leafeaters
  8. leafed
  9. leafed out
  10. leafed through
  11. leafen

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