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What (who) is xylophage - definition
DIGESTION OF WOOD
Xylophagous; Xylophagos; Xylophage; Xylophagan; Wood-eater; Lignivorous; Saproxylic; Xylofagou Tower; Digestion of wood; Sapro-xylophagous
xylophagous
a.
Wood-eating, living on wood, feeding on wood, wood-nourished.
Xylophagous
·adj Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.
II. Xylophagous ·adj Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood;
- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks.
xylophagous
[z??'l?f?g?s]
¦ adjective Zoology feeding on or boring into wood.
Wikipedia
Xylophagy
Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood. The word derives from Greek ξυλοφάγος (xulophagos) "eating wood", from ξύλον (xulon) "wood" and φαγεῖν (phagein) "to eat", an ancient Greek name for a kind of a worm-eating bird. Animals feeding only on dead wood are called sapro-xylophagous or saproxylic.
