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Definition of Skeletonizer
1. n. Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
Definition of Skeletonizer
1. Noun. (zoology) Any moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton behind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skeletonizer
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Medical Definition of Skeletonizer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeletonizer
Literary usage of Skeletonizer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"The apple leaf-skeletonizer moth (X5). This leaf-skeletonizer is most common in
the Mississippi Valley, where it is sometimes quite destructive in nurseries ..."
2. Injurious Insects: How to Recognize and Control Them by Walter Collins O'Kane (1912)
"Larva of the Grape-lent skeletonizer. Original. ... Fio. 396. — Adult of the
Grape-leaf skeletonizer, enlarged to three times natural size. Original. ..."
3. Report of the Illinois State Entomologist Concerning Operations Under the by Illinois State Entomologist (1885)
"In this way a field can be gone over easily and rapidly and sprayed for the leaf
roller, skeletonizer, and crumpler at comparatively little expense. ..."
4. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1884)
"Then the Tortrix (or Leaf Roller), the Leaf skeletonizer, and a troublesome little
insect, known to orchard- ists as the Embryo Apple-eater, follows it up ..."
5. Bulletin by Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Thomas McAdory Owen (1918)
"6 Apple and thorn skeletonizer, dorsal or top view of a typical pale greenish
... 7 Apple and thorn skeletonizer, head and first two body segments of the ..."
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