leafeater

English

Etymology

leaf + eater

Noun

leafeater (plural leafeaters)

  1. Any organism that consumes leaves.
    • 1984, Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia (page 8)
      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 []
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