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Skeletonizer vs Skeletonize - What's the difference?

skeletonizer | skeletonize |

As a noun skeletonizer

is (zoology) any moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton behind.

As a verb skeletonize is

to reduce to a skeleton.

skeletonizer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) Any moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton behind.
    • the apple-leaf skeletonizer
    (Webster 1913)

    skeletonize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * skeletonise

    Verb

    (skeletoniz)
  • To reduce to a skeleton.