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xylophagous, a. Zool.|zaɪˈlɒfəgəs|
Also 9 erron. zylo-, xilo-.
[f. mod.L. xylophagus, f. Gr. ξύλον wood + -ϕαγος eating: see -ous. Cf. F. xylophage.]
Feeding upon wood, as an insect larva, or boring into and destroying wood, as a mollusc or crustacean. So xyˈlophagan, a. belonging to the Xylophaga or Xylophagi, names in different classifications for various groups of insects whose larvæ devour wood; n. an insect belonging to one of these groups; xylophage |ˈzaɪləʊfeɪdʒ|, a wood-eating insect.
1842Brande Dict. Sci., etc., *Xylophagans, Xylophaga..a tribe of Coleopterous insects,..also..a family of Dipterous insects.
1877Kurz Flora Brit. Burmah I. 339 Wood..of a coarse fibre, soon attacked by *xylophages.
1739Phil. Trans. XLI. 279 This *Xylophagous Worm. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 704/1 The..xilophagous Conchifera. 1836–9Ibid. II. 862/1 The..Xylophagous insects of this tribe..are exceedingly destructive. 1864Owen Power of God 16 Tree-destroying Xylophagous larvæ. |