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English Dictionary: xylophagous by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Xylophagous \Xy*loph"a*gous\, a. [Gr. [?] eating wood; xy`lon
      wood + [?] to eat.] (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said
            especially of certain insect larv[91], crustaceans, and
            mollusks.
      (b) Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.
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