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- noun Alternative spelling of
leaf beetle .
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Examples
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Elm leaves injured by the "imported elm-tree leaf-beetle," a chewing insect 119 68.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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The last three feed also on the southern corn leaf-beetle and the last two upon the grapevine colaspis.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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The larva of the three-lined leaf-beetle may be distinguished from all other insects which prey upon the potato by its habit of covering itself with its own excrement.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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