Crossword-Solution: PHYTOPHAGOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phytophagous | a. | Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. |
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| feeding on plants | 2 answers |
| Insects that feed on plant sap | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
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Sentences with PHYTOPHAGOUS (5)
And it is very doubtful whether these exceptions will be sustained: indeed the suspicion of unpalatability already besets the Longicorns and is always on the heels,--I should say the hind tarsi--of a Phytophagous beetle.
The roots penetrate deeply into the soil; the thickened, spiny leaves are so protected by their juices and their spines that they are molested by very few enemies; the flower stalks are also clothed in a similar armature; and the great heads of flowers are surrounded with prickly involucres that generally prevent their being eaten by browsing animals or even by phytophagous insects.
The insects of this order in their larval condition are almost all phytophagous, and are very uniform both in structure and in habits.
PHYTOPHAGOUS, f[=i]-tof'a-gus, _adj._ feeding on plants--also PHYTOPHAG'IC.--_ns._ PHYTOPH'AGAN; PHYTOPH'AGY.
Such are the Cicindelidæ, or tiger beetles; the Melolonthidæ, or chafers; the Cetoniidæ, or rose-chafers; the Eumolpidæ and Galerucidæ, large families of Phytophagous, or leaf-eating beetles; and also the extensive groups of Elateridæ and Buprestidæ, which are each represented by but one minute species.