Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feeding on wood, as certain insects or insect larvae.
- adj. Destructive to wood, as certain crustaceans or fungi.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wood-eating; habitually feeding upon wood; lignivorous, as an insect. See Cis (with cut).
- Perforating and destroying as if eating timber, as a mollusk or a crustacean.
Wiktionary
- adj. Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)
- adj. Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvæ, crustaceans, and mollusks.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.
Etymologies
- From xylo- (wood) and suffix -phagous (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Same with lignivorous/xylophagous, herbivorous/phytophagous, and of course carnivorous/sarcophagous.”
“Water temperature relations primitive xylophagous cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder (Dictyoptera - Cryptocercidae)”
“It's a veritable feast, so check the duration of your mortgage because what you're buying is fast becoming food for powder post beetles, carpenter ants, carpenter bees and other xylophagous organisms (wood eaters).”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘xylophagous’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-x
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xyston, xystus, xystarch, xylotomous, xyster, xylorimba, xylotherapy, xylopolist, xylophory, xylophilous, xylophagous, xylometer and 82 more...
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xylo- words
xylo is Greek for wood
xylophone is listed 37 timesxylobalsamum, xylocarp, xylocarpous, xylochrome, xylogen, xylograph, xylographed, xylographer, xylographic, xylographical, xylographing, xylography and 24 more...
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phrontistery-x
from phrontistery.info
xanthareel, xanthic, xanthippe, xanthocarpous, xanthochroia, xanthochroic, xanthocomic, xanthocyanopsy, xanthoderm, xanthodont, xanthoma, xanthometer and 82 more...
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Worse Than They Sound
fistula, cryptosporidium, debride, donnybrook, decerebrate, pillory, flagellate, disembogue, minatory, micturate, coprolite, nosocomial and 160 more...
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Wordplayer's Wonderful Words
chaparral, grotesque, knork, newsmonger, thitherwards, fackeltanz, kakistocracy, sforzando, compendium, frump, inquere, phosphene and 100 more...
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-phagous, -phage
feeding on a particular food
coprophagous, bacteriophage, zoophage, zoophagous, xylophagous
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xylo-, xyl-
of or relating to wood
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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Adjectival Arcana
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Xylo Fun
xylocarp, xylocopa, xylogen, xylogenesis, xylogenous, xyloglyphy, xylograph, xyloid, xylology, xylometer, xylophagous, xylophilous and 11 more...
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You Are What You Eat, Part II
adephagous, algophagous, androphagous, anthophagous, anthropophagous, aphidophagous, arachnophagous, bacteriophagous, batrachophagous, biophagous, carpophagous, coprophagous and 47 more...
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reesetee Destroying or boring into wood. Sep 14, 2007