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Definition of Phytophagic
1. Adjective. (of animals) feeding on plants.
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Similar to: Herbivorous
Definition of Phytophagic
1. a. Phytophagous.
Definition of Phytophagic
1. Adjective. (alternative form of phytophagous) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Phytophagic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytophagic
Literary usage of Phytophagic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1865)
"I have this year carefully compared several dozen larvae of the above two (phytophagic)
species, and find that the mature and nearly mature * As to the ..."
2. Insect Life by Division of Entomology, United States Bureau of Entomology (1891)
"... Green for Cabbage Worms—An Experiment against White Grubs—More Damage to Corn
by the Brassy Flea-beetle—phytophagic Dung-beetles—Germination of ..."
3. Bibliography of the More Important Contributions to American Economic Entomology by United States Bureau of Entomology, Nathan Banks, Samuel Henshaw (1889)
"WALSH, BD On phytophagic varieties and ... same species and are termed phytophagic
varieties; these when separated with a single kind of food-plant form ..."
4. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... entomologist of the United States, has described what he calls phytophagic
varieties and phytophagic species. Most vegetable-feeding insects live on one ..."
5. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1896)
"But no observer can determine for another, even if he can do so for himself,
which of these phytophagic forms ought to be called species and which varieties ..."
6. More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto by Charles Darwin (1903)
"I received your former paper on phytophagic variety,1 most of which was new ...
Is it not probable that guest-flies were 1 For " phytophagic Varieties and ..."
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