Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Xylotomous

Xylotomous , adjective

[Prefix xylo- + root of Greek te`mnein to cut.]

(Zoology) Capable of boring or cutting wood; -- said of many insects.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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