Sentence example with the word 'phytophagous'

phytophagous

Definition adj. (of animals) feeding on plants

Last update: June 15, 2015

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The phytophagous species are attached to various parts of plants, dead or alive; and the carnivorous in like manner feed on dead or living flesh, or its products, many larvae being parasitic on living animals of various classes (in Australia the larva of a species of Muscidae is even a parasite of frogs), especially the caterpillars of Lepidoptera, which are destroyed in great numbers by Tachininae.   [Please select]

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The insects of this order in their larval condition are almost all phytophagous, and are very uniform both in structure and in habits.   [Please select]

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