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Webster 1913 Edition

Xylophagous

Xy-loph′a-gous

,

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

.