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Xylophagous vs Phyllophagous - What's the difference?

xylophagous | phyllophagous |

As adjectives the difference between xylophagous and phyllophagous

is that xylophagous is feeding on wood while phyllophagous is (zoology) subsisting on leaves; leaf-eating.

xylophagous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Feeding on wood.
  • * 1841 , William Chambers and Robert Chambers [eds.], Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal , volume 9, page 247
    • 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.
  • Destructive to wood.

    • Related terms

    * xylophage * xylophagy

    phyllophagous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) Subsisting on leaves; leaf-eating.
    • (Webster 1913)