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Phytophagous
Phytophagous meaning
Feeding on plants, herbivorous.
Synonyms of Phytophagous
Example sentences (3)
In some cases, phytophagous larvae can lead to the destruction of entire trees in relatively short periods of time.
Most of the recent phytophagous species of Coleoptera feed on flowering plants or angiosperms.
The increase in diversity of the angiosperms is also believed to have influenced the diversity of the phytophagous species, which doubled during the Middle Jurassic.