Usually means: Eats wood or plant material.
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  1. hylophagous: Merriam-Webster
  2. hylophagous: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hylophagous: Wordnik
  4. hylophagous: Wiktionary
  5. hylophagous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. hylophagous: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Hylophagous, hylophagous: Dictionary.com
  8. Hylophagous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. hylophagous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Hylophagous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. hylophagous: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hylophagous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. hylophagous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hylophagous: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hylophagous)

▸ adjective:  That feeds on wood

Similar:
xylophagous, anthophagous, mallophagous, dipterophagous, ornithophagous, entomonecrophagous, meliphagous, myrmecophagous, ornithophagic, monophagous, more...

Opposite:
carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous

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Similar:
xylophagous, anthophagous, mallophagous, dipterophagous, ornithophagous, entomonecrophagous, meliphagous, myrmecophagous, ornithophagic, monophagous, more...

Opposite:
carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous



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