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phy·toph·a·ga
I. \fīˈtäfəgə\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from phyt- + -phaga
: any of several groups of vegetable-feeding animals: as
a. : a very large division of Coleoptera comprising beetles that have all the tarsi apparently 4-jointed, the head not rostrate, the labrum exposed, and the palpi never wholly occluded in the mouth and including the families Bruchidae, Chrysomelidae, and Cerambycidae or being made coextensive with Chrysomelidae
b. : a division of Hymenoptera comprising forms (as the sawflies) with larvae that feed on plants
c. : a group of Edentata including the sloths
II. noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from phyt- + -phaga
: a genus of gall midges |