Xy*loph"a*gous (?), a. [Gr. eating wood; xy`lon wood + to eat.] Zool. (a)
Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks.
Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.
© Webster 1913.
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