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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