xylo-, xyl- +

(Greek: wood; the first element of various scientific and technical words that refer to wood)

aeroxyl (s) (noun), aeroxyls (pl)
A woody plant with a single trunk rising from the ground: An aerosol can be a tree with an obvious bole or trunk with boughs or branches above the ground..
chiroxylography (s) (noun), chiroxylographies (pl)
A manuscript which is added to a block book in which the illustrations are printed from woodcuts.

Block books, also called xylographica or chiroxylographies, are short books of up to 50 leaves, block printed in Europe in the second half of the 15th century as woodcuts with blocks carved to include both text and illustrations.

The content of the books was nearly always religious, aimed at a popular audience, and a few titles were often reprinted in several editions using new woodcuts.

Although many had believed that block books preceded Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the first part of the 1450s, it now is believed that most of the surviving block books were printed in the 1460s or later, and that the earliest surviving examples may date to about 1451.

Chiroxylographies seem to have functioned as a cheap popular alternative to the typeset book, which was still very expensive at this time.

Single-leaf woodcuts of chiroxylographies from the preceding decades often included passages of text with prayers, indulgences and other material; the block book was an extension of this form.

Block books or chiroxylographies are very rare and there are apparently some editions surviving only in fragments, and many probably not surviving at all.

chromoxylograph (s) (noun), chromoxylographs (pl)
A picture produced in colors from wooden blocks:Chromoxylographs involve a method for making multi-colored prints using stones or metal plates because oil and water do not mix.

Artists utilize the lithographic process because the images or chromoxylographs are applied to a porous limestone or a zinc plate with a grease-based crayon or ink.

chromoxylography
Printing in colors from wooden blocks.
epixylous
Growing on wood.
geoxyl (s) (noun), geoxyls (pl)
A plant having woody stems arising from an underground woody rhizone: In his book about plants, Jeff found out that some plants were known to be geoxyls because the rhizones beneath the soil produced stalks or branches that were of a woody nature.
lithoxyle
Fossilized wood.
lithoxyloidical
Resembling pyritized wood.
microgeoxyl (s) (noun), microgeoxyls (pl)
A low-lying woody plants that sends up numerous stems: A shrub can be a microgeoxyl that is woody, possesses many stems, and js short in growth at ground-level.
microxyl
Dwarf woody plants having one main axis rising from the soil.
monoxylic
A descriptive word for a canoe or boat which is made from one piece of timber (wood).
monoxylon
1. A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber (wood).
2. Something formed from a single piece of wood; such as, a sculpture.
monoxylous
1. Formed or made out of a single piece of wood.
2. Using one piece of wood to make a boat or a coffin, etc.
photo-xylography
A process of employing photography in the preparation of wood blocks for printing.
protoxylen
In botany, the tissue from which the xylem is developed; the primitive xylem of a fibro-vascular bundle.

Related "wood" word units: hylo-; ligni-.