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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
. Definition 2024
xylophagous
xylophagous
English
Adjective
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.
- 1841, William Chambers and Robert Chambers [eds.], Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume 9, page 247
- Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.)