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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr.

ξυλοφάγοσ

eating wood;

ξύλον

wood +

φαγεῖν

to eat.]

(Zool.)

(a)

Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; – said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks.

(b)

Of or pertaining to the genus

Xylophaga

xylophagous ‎(not comparable)

Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)
- 1841, William Chambers and Robert Chambers [eds.], Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume 9, page 247
  Man has many times suffered from his attempts at extermination, and in no way, perhaps, would he suffer more, than by utterly destroying the mischievous teredo, and its active little ally, the xylophagous linmeria.
Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.)

of insects, etc., feeding on wood

of fungi, etc., feeding on wood