xylo-comb. form

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1060 Xylochlore...Kenngott..has shown that it is an altered form of apophyllite.

1862 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. XV. 534 Xylochloric acid. C³⁰H²⁶O³⁴?.. A green colouring matter, which sometimes forms on decayed pieces of wood.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1060 Xylochloeric acid, a term applied by Fordos..to the green colouring-matter of decayed wood, which may be extracted by chloroform.

1898 H. C. Porter tr. E. Strasburger et al. Text-bk. Bot. 124 The tannins impart to the dead wood a distinct colour, often very characteristic, especially when it has been transformed into wood dyes, or so-called xylochrome.

1904 Athenæum 24 Dec. 881/1 A photograph..showing the Xylocopid model and its Asilid mimic.

1820 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan. 352 It may be named provisionally Xylocryptite, expressive of its being hidden in fossil wood.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1060 Xylocryptite, a mineral apparently related to Scheererite, occurring in yellow waxy crystalline particles on lignite. (Becquerel.)

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1061 Xylolite. Syn. with mountain-wood, or ligniform asbestos.

1908 W. R. Fisher Schlich's Man. Forestry V. 616 With cement, soluble glass and gypsum, it [sc. sawdust] is converted into xylolith or papyrolith.

1911 W. R. Fisher Schlich's Man. Forestry III. 26 The instrument used is called a xylometer.

1911 W. R. Fisher Schlich's Man. Forestry III. 48 The xylometric method has been explained.

1911 W. R. Fisher Schlich's Man. Forestry III. 33 In many cases it is desirable to ascertain the volume of the bark... This can be done stereometrically or xylometrically.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1337/1 Xylophilans, Xylophili, the name of a tribe of beetles, consisting of those which live on decayed wood.

1862 R. G. Mayne Med. Vocab. (ed. 2) Xylophilus..growing upon, or living in decayed wood; xylophilous.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Xylopolist..a Woodmonger.

1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Xylopyrography.

1901 Daily Chron. 27 May 6/1 [Baron Auer's] father was..an inventor in typography and xylopyrography.

1852 W. Gregory Handbk. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 417 Tekoretine, Phylloretine, Xyloretine, and Boloretine, are the names of four resinous compounds, found in the peat of Denmark, on the remains of pine-trees.

1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 743 Xyloretinite was derived by Forchhammer through the action of alcohol on fossil pine-wood from the marshes of Holtegaard in Denmark.

1871 M. C. Cooke Handbk. Brit. Fungi I. 282 Polyporus vitreus... ‘Glassy Polyporus.’.. Distinguished by its distinct xylostromatoid sub-stratum, which separates easily from the matrix.

1880 Boston Jrnl. Chem. Dec. 144 At a recent meeting of the Société de Thérapeutique M. Dujardin-Beaumetz read for M. Jourdanis a note on the æsthesiogenic properties of certain woods applied to the skin, which he calls xylotherapy. M. Jourdanis has applied plates of wood to the insensible skin, and as with plates of metal, magnets,..and blisters has obtained a return of sensibility.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Xylotile.

1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 406 Xylotile..is probably only an altered asbestus. It occurs delicately fibrous;..wood-brown, light or dark, and also green in color.

1872 W. Skeen Early Typogr. 417 The xylotypographic text.

1936 Levene & Tipson in Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 115 731 For simplicity it would seem desirable to term the ketose ‘d- xylulose’, in conformity with the nomenclature accepted for other keto sugars.

1964 D. Y. Hsia in G. A. Duncan Dis. Metabolism (ed. 5) v. 349 Lasker reported that she had identified l-xylulose in all 72 pentosuric urines that she had tested.

1968 Marks & Samols in F. Dickens et al. Carbohydrate Metabolism II. xiii. 351 The existence of this pathway of glucose metabolism was first recognised as a result of studies on the biosynthesis of l-ascorbic acid in animals and of l-xylulose in pentosurics.

1974 B. S. Hartley in M. J. Carlile & J. J. Skehel Evol. in Microbial World 170 A mutant of this organism constitutive for ribitol dehydrogenase grows on xylitol by utilising a side specificity of this enzyme to produce xylulose.