Etymology

foliophagous

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Today it means: feeding on leaves Full definition →

Latin folium
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfolium“leaf”
  2. English todayfoliophagous

From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -phagous.

Words from the same roots

Latinfolium all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.