Usually means: Insects that feed on plants.
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  1. Phytophaga, Phytophaga: Merriam-Webster
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  3. Phytophaga, phytophaga: Dictionary.com
  4. Phytophaga: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. phytophaga: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Phytophaga: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. phytophaga: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Phytophaga, Phytophaga: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Phytophaga)

noun:  a clade of beetles within the infraorder Cucujiformia consisting of the superfamilies Chrysomeloidea and Curculionoidea that are distinctive in the plant-feeding habit combined with the tarsi being pseudotetramerous or cryptopentamerous, where the fourth tarsal segment is typically greatly reduced or hidden by the third tarsal segment.


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