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Phytophagous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Feeding on plants, including shrubs and trees. Used especially of certain insects.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. feeding on plants, herbivorous

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Feeding on plants; herbivorous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Plant-eating; feeding on plants; herbivorous; specifically, of or pertaining to the Phytophaga, in any sense. Also phytophagan and phytophagic.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (of animals) feeding on plants

Word Usage

"Mr Caterpillar jerked his head and thorax back, and then whipped it forward in a whiplash maneuver, shoving Mrs Caterpillar onto her stove, her phytophagous stew splashing all over her kitchen floor — completely wasted."

Equivalent

herbivorous

Cross Reference

phytophagy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

herbivorous phytophilous phytophagic