| skeletonize | To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Origin: Skeletonised; Skeletonizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| skeletonizer | <zoology> Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |