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leaf miner

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English

Syllables
leaf min-er
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An insect larva that lives between the epidermis of a leaf and consumes the leaf tissue.

Inflected Forms

leaf miners (plural) leaf-miner (alternative)

Phrases

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Synonyms

leaf-miner

Questions

What does leaf miner mean?
An insect larva that lives between the epidermis of a leaf and consumes the leaf tissue.

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