Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wood-cutting, as an insect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Capable of boring or cutting wood; -- said of many insects.
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- adjective That
bores orcuts intowood , as with certain insects.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ξύλον (xylon, "wood") + τομία (tomia, "cut"), from τέμνειν (temnein, "to cut")
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