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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Feeding on leaves.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Leaf-eating; feeding on leaves; of or pertaining to the Phyllophaga or Phyllophagi.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Subsisting on leaves; leaf-eating.

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