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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing or living on or in wood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In phytogeography, growing on wood in any state: applied to a class of fungi.
- Fond of wood, as an insect; living or feeding upon wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the xylophilans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Living on or in
wood , as somefungi andbeetles do.
Etymologies
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xylo- + -philous
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