xylophagous

Feeding on or obtaining nutrition from wood.

Wood-eating; habitually feeding upon wood; lignivorous, as an insect. See Cis (with cut).

Perforating and destroying as if eating timber, as a mollusk or a crustacean.

Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; — said especially of certain insect larvæ, crustaceans, and mollusks.

Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.

Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)

Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.)