What does foliicolous mean?
Foliicolous means (biology) Growing or living on leaves..
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/ˌfəʊliˈɪkələs/ · adjective
(biology) Growing or living on leaves..
In the specimens I saw it required no exercise of the imagination to interpret the meaning of the spots, but any person accustomed to examine tropical foliicolous parasites would have been struck immediately with the resemblance.
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Foliicolous means (biology) Growing or living on leaves..
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In the specimens I saw it required no exercise of the imagination to interpret the meaning of the spots, but any person accustomed to examine tropical foliicolous parasites would have been struck immediately with the resemblance.
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