wood-eating
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• (a.) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks. • (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.
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Xy·loph'a·gous adjective [ Greek ... eating wood;
xy`lon wood + ... to eat.]
(Zoology) (a) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvæ, crustaceans, and mollusks.
(b) Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.
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xylophagous Feeding on wood, as an insect larva, or boring into and destroying wood, as a mollusc or crustacean.
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the behaviour of feeding on wood.
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eating wood
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feeding on wood, as certain insects or insect larvae. · perforating or destroying timber, as certain mollusks, crustaceans, and fungi.
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