"xylophagous" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "xylo- + -phagous",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "xylophage"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "xylophagy"
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          "_dis": "69 31",
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          "_dis": "90 10",
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        {
          "ref": "1841, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume 9, page 247",
          "text": "Man has many times suffered from his attempts at extermination, and in no way, perhaps, would he suffer more, than by utterly destroying the mischievous teredo, and its active little ally, the xylophagous linmeria.",
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        "Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)"
      ],
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        [
          "Feeding",
          "feeding"
        ],
        [
          "wood",
          "wood"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
          "word": "xilòfag"
        },
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          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
          "word": "dřevožravý"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
          "word": "xylofágní"
        },
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          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
          "word": "ksylofaginen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
          "word": "xylophage"
        }
      ]
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        "Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.)"
      ],
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          "Destructive",
          "destructive"
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      "_dis1": "54 46",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "dřevožravý"
    },
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      "_dis1": "54 46",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "xylofágní"
    },
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      "_dis1": "54 46",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "ksylofaginen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "xylophage"
    }
  ],
  "word": "xylophagous"
}

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    {
      "word": "saproxylophagous"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "word": "xylophagy"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1841, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume 9, page 247",
          "text": "Man has many times suffered from his attempts at extermination, and in no way, perhaps, would he suffer more, than by utterly destroying the mischievous teredo, and its active little ally, the xylophagous linmeria.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)"
      ],
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          "wood"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
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        "Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.)"
      ],
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          "Destructive",
          "destructive"
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        "not-comparable"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "xilòfag"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "dřevožravý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "xylofágní"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "ksylofaginen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of insects, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "xylophage"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "dřevožravý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "xylofágní"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "ksylofaginen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of fungi, etc., feeding on wood",
      "word": "xylophage"
    }
  ],
  "word": "xylophagous"
}