Usually means: Insect larvae that tunnel leaves.
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  1. leaf miner: Merriam-Webster
  2. leaf miner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leaf miner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leaf miner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leaf-miner, leaf miner: Vocabulary.com
  6. leaf miner: Wordnik
  7. leaf-miner, leaf miner: Wiktionary
  8. leaf miner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. leaf miner: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Leaf miner, leaf-miner, leaf miner: Dictionary.com
  11. Leaf Miner, Leaf miner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. leaf-miner, leaf miner: Rhymezone
  13. leaf-miner, leaf miner: FreeDictionary.org
  14. leaf-miner, leaf miner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. leaf-miner, leaf miner: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. leaf-miner, leaf miner: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (leaf miner)

▸ noun:  (ecology) An insect larva that lives between the epidermis of a leaf and consumes the leaf tissue.

Similar:
leafminer, mine, lerp, skeletonizer, leafling, entomophyte, underleaf, scale insect, leaflet, leafit, more...

Phrases:
birch leaf miner, Horse-chestnut leaf miner, more...

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Similar:
leafminer, mine, lerp, skeletonizer, leafling, entomophyte, underleaf, scale insect, leaflet, leafit, more...

Phrases:
birch leaf miner, Horse-chestnut leaf miner, more...



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