Xylophagous

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Definition of Xylophagous

adjective

Feeding on or obtaining nutrition from wood.
"a xylophagous beetle; xylophagous fungi."
Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvæ, crustaceans, and mollusks.
Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.

noun

Wood-eating; habitually feeding upon wood; lignivorous, as an insect. See Cis (with cut).
Perforating and destroying as if eating timber, as a mollusk or a crustacean.

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