Meanings
adjectiveampelophagous (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyFeeding on grapevines.
These two vectors have different lifestyles–the former strictly ampelophagous and the latter polyphagous, only occasionally feeding on grapevine – and dissimilar biological features, which may reflect diversely affiliated microbial communities.
2010, Phyllis G. Weintraub, Phytoplasmas: Genomes, Plant Hosts and Vectors, page 282
Origin
Translations
French ampélophage
- ampélophagefeeding on grapevines
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