foliicolous

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English

Etymology

From Latin folium (leaf) +‎ -colous.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌfəʊliˈɪkələs/

Adjective

foliicolous (comparative more foliicolous, superlative most foliicolous)

  1. (biology) Growing or living on leaves.
    • 1895 December, Botanical Gazette, page 548:
      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.