EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -An Xylophagous animal is an animal whose diet consists primarily or solely of wood.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animals that eat wood exclusively or almost exclusively are called xylophages. Termites and Asian long-horned beetles are examples of xylophages.

Detailed explanation-3: -Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood. The word derives from Greek (xulophagos) “eating wood", from (xulon) “wood” and (phagein) “to eat", an ancient Greek name for a kind of a worm-eating bird.

Detailed explanation-4: -(zaɪˈlɒfəɡəs ) adjective. (of certain insects, crustaceans, etc) feeding on or living within wood.