different between xylophagous vs hylophagous

English

xylo- +? -phagous

xylophagous (not comparable)

Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)
- 1841, William Chambers and Robert Chambers [eds.], Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume 9, page 247
  Man has many times suffered from his attempts at extermination, and in no way, perhaps, would he suffer more, than by utterly destroying the mischievous teredo, and its active little ally, the xylophagous linmeria.
Destructive to wood. (of fungi etc.)

hylo- +? -phagous

hylophagous (comparative more hylophagous, superlative most hylophagous)

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