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leaf miner

15 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. leaf miner (noun)
  2. arborvitae leaf miner (noun)
  3. birch leaf miner (noun)
  4. boxwood leaf miner (noun)
  5. cabbage-leaf miner (noun)
  6. holly leaf miner (noun)
  7. lilac leaf miner (noun)
  8. locust leaf miner (noun)
  9. oak leaf miner (noun)
  10. pea leaf miner (noun)
  11. serpentine leaf miner (noun)
  12. spinach leaf miner (noun)
  13. tobacco leaf miner (noun)
  14. turnip leaf miner (noun)
  15. apple-leaf trumpet miner (noun)

leaf miner

noun

Definition of LEAF MINER

: any of various small insects (as moths or dipteran flies) that in the larval stages burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves
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First Known Use of LEAF MINER

1830

Rhymes with LEAF MINER

airliner, aligner, assigner, baseliner, blueliner, byliner, combiner, confiner, cosigner, decliner, definer, designer, diviner, eyeliner, flatliner, hard-liner, headliner, incliner, jetliner, Landsteiner, long-liner, moonshiner, one-liner, recliner, refiner, repiner, resigner, sideliner, soft-liner, streamliner, strip miner

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