that destroys wood, that carries wood
an insect that destroys wood, Arist. HA 557b13 codd. (fort. -φόρον that carries wood).
The corpus record
ξῠλο-φθόρον
xulophthoron · τό
that destroys wood
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What it meant — LSJ
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.