Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eating wood; xylophagous, as certain beetles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.

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  • adjective That feeds on wood

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