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Xylophagous

Adjective

1. (Especially of an insect larva or mollusc) feeding on or boring into wood. (Google Dictionary)

2. Destructive to wood (of fungi etc.) (wiktionary.org)

Word origin: From Greek ξυλοφάγος (xulophagos) “eating wood”, from ξύλον (xulon) “wood” and φαγεῖν (phagein) “to eat”, an ancient Greek name for a kind of a worm-eating bird.