xylo-, xyl- +

A wood-engraving (i.e. either an engraving on wood, or an impression from one), especially one from an early period.

A wood-engraver, especially of an early period.

1. Of, pertaining to, or executed by wood-engraving.
2. Block books in which the illustrations are printed from woodcuts and the text added in manuscript (chiroxylographic).

By the method of wood-engraving.

Wood-engraving, especially of an early period or of a primitive kind; also, more widely, printing from wood blocks as distinct from type.

Relating to or resembling wood; of or relating to wood or like wood.

The science of woods and forests.

A woody tumor on a tree or plant.

Divination with small pieces of wood; interpreting the forms or appearance of fallen tree branches or other wood seen on the ground; also the positions of logs and the manner of their burning in a fire; for example, if one falls suddenly, a surprise is due.

Names in different classifications for various groups of insects whose larvae devour wood.

An insect belonging to one of these groups.

A wood-eating insect.

1. Organisms which eat wood; those thriving on wood as a source of food; such as, certain molluscs, insects, and fungi.
2. Eating or boring into wood, as the larvae of certain insects.

Feeding on wood, as an insect larva, or boring into and destroying wood, as a mollusc or crustacean.

The eating of wood as is done by certain insects; such as, termites.

Many xylophagous insects have symbiotic protozoa and/or bacteria in their digestive system which assist in the breakdown of wood cellulose.

The cellulose, or inert carbohydrate which is the chief constituent of the cell walls of plants and of wood, cotton, hemp, paper, etc. that exist in a termite's food is digested by myriads of flagellated protozoans living in the termite's digestive tract.

Without the protozoans in the termites digestive areas, the termites would starve because the cellulose could not be digested without the protozoans.

Other organisms, especially among the groups feeding on decaying wood, apparently derive much of their nutrition from the digestion of various fungi that are growing within the wood fibers.

Belonging to the group Xylophili of beetles, that live in decayed wood; a beetle of this group.