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“xylophagist”
xylophagist
1. Organisms which eat wood; those thriving on wood as a source of food; such as, certain molluscs, insects, and fungi.
2. Eating or boring into wood, as the larvae of certain insects.
These eager xylophagous insects are showing us just what xylophagy is all about.
2. Eating or boring into wood, as the larvae of certain insects.
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phago-, phag-, -phage, -phagi, -phagic, -phagically, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagic, -phagous, -phagy
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xylo-, xyl- +
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