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leaf beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English

Syllables
leaf bee-tle
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of very many brightly-coloured beetles, of the family Chrysomelidae, that feed on plant leaves.

Inflected Forms

leaf beetles (plural) leaf-beetle (alternative)

Phrases

broad-bodied leaf beetle cereal leaf beetle cylindrical leaf beetle elm leaf beetle long-horned leaf beetle oval leaf beetle small cereal leaf beetle warty leaf beetle

Synonyms

chrysomelid

Questions

What does leaf beetle mean?
Any of very many brightly-coloured beetles, of the family Chrysomelidae, that feed on plant leaves.

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