Xylophagy

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Xylophagy is the habit of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood: that is, a xylophagous one. The word derives from Greek ξυλοφάγος (xulophagos) "eating wood", from ξύλον (xulon) "wood" and φαγεῖν (phagein) "to eat".

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