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Meanings of phytophagous in English

(Of animals) feeding on plants.

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        1
        In surveys of phytophagous arthropods over two years, we found the aspen canopy supports nearly 100 morphospecies.
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        2
        The latter compounds are well known allelochemicals from Brassicaceae having a strong influence on specialist and generalist insects from both phytophagous and entomophagous levels.
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        3
        What can be the meaning or use of the great diversity of the external generative organs in your cases, in Bombus, and the phytophagous coleoptera?
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