leafeater

leafeater

English

Etymology

leaf +‎ eater

Noun

leafeater (plural leafeaters)

1. Any organism that consumes leaves.
   • 1984, Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia (page 8)

     Eliminate just one kind of tree out of hundreds in such a forest, and some of its pollinators, leafeaters, and woodborers will disappear with it, then various of their parasites and key predators […]