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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theinfraorder Xylophagomorpha — the awl-flies.
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Xylophagus (“awl fly genus”) + -idae, from New Latin xylo ("wood"), from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xylon, "wood, tree"), + φάγος (phagos, "glutton")
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