英语词汇xylophage的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	xylophage
词源	xylophage. Any xylophage, which takes its name from the Greek xylo, “wood,” and phagein, “to eat,” is a wood-eating insect, such as a termite. The adjective xylophagous means “feeding on wood” and usually refers to the teredo worm and other crusta- ceans, mollusks, and fungi that perforate or destroy timber.
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