leaf insects
31leaf-hopper — leafˈ hopper noun A name for various hopping orthopterous insects that suck plant juices • • • Main Entry: ↑leaf …
32leaf|hop|per — leaf hopper, or leaf|hop|per «LEEF HOP uhr», noun. any one of various small, leaping homopterous insects that feed on plant juices …
33leaf hopper — leaf hopper, or leaf|hop|per «LEEF HOP uhr», noun. any one of various small, leaping homopterous insects that feed on plant juices …
34leaf insect — n. any of a family (Phylliidae, order Phasmatoptera) of sluggish, winged insects that resemble leaves …
35Leaf — For other uses, see Leaf (disambiguation). The leaves of a Beech tree …
36leaf — leafless, adj. leaflike, adj. /leef/, n., pl. leaves /leevz/, v. n. 1. one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant. 2. any similar or corresponding lateral outgrowth of a stem. 3. a petal: a rose leaf. 4. leaves… …
37Leaf — /leef/, n. Munro /mun roh /, 1905 76, U.S. author and illustrator of books for children. * * * I Any flattened, green outgrowth from the stem of a vascular plant. Leaves manufacture oxygen and glucose, which nourishes and sustains both plants and …
38leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves. Also, leafminer. [1820 30] * * * Any of various insect larvae that live and feed within a leaf, including… …
39Leaf-nosed bat — Taxobox name = Leaf nosed bats image width = 240px image caption = Macrotus waterhousii , Cartwright Cave, Long Island, Bahamas regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Chiroptera familia = Phyllostomidae familia authority =… …
40Leaf litter sieve — A leaf litter sieve is a piece of equipment used by entomologists, in particular by coleopterists (Cooter 1991, page 7) as an aid to finding invertebrates in leaf litter.A typical leaf litter sieve consists of a gauze with holes of approximately… …
