ξῠλο-φάγος · xylo-phagos — LSJ
eating wood
eating wood, σκώληξ Str. 12.7.3 ; cj. for ὑλο- in Ant.Lib. 22.5.
The corpus record
ξῠλο-φάγος
xulophagos
eating wood
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What it meant
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.