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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Xylophagan
(n.)
Any species of Xylophaga.
Xylophagan
(n.)
Any one of the Xylophagides.
Xylophagides
(n. pl.)
A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvae
live in decayed wood. Some of the tropical species are very large.
Xylophagous
(a.)
Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said
especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks.
Xylophagous
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.
Xylophilan
(n.)
One of a tribe of beetles (Xylophili) whose larvae live
on decayed wood.
Xylophilous
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the xylophilans.
Xylophone
(n.)
An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and
Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in
length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with
two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.
Xylophone
(n.)
An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of
different kinds of wood.
Xyloplastic
(a.)
Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made
of wood pulp in molds.
Xylopyrography
(n.)
The art or practice of burning pictures on wood
with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture,
under Poker.
Xyloquinone
(n.)
Any one of a group of quinone compounds obtained
respectively by the oxidation of certain xylidine compounds. In general
they are yellow crystalline substances.
Xylorcin
(n.)
A derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline
substance which on exposure in the air becomes red; -- called also
betaorcin.
Xylostein
(n.)
A glucoside found in the poisonous berries of a species
of honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum), and extracted as a bitter, white,
crystalline substance.
Xylotile
(n.)
Same as Parkesine.
Xylotrya
(n.)
A genus of marine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and
equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very
common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.
Xylyl
(n.)
Any one of three metameric radicals which are characteristic
respectively of the three xylenes.
Xylylene
(n.)
Any one of three metameric radicals, CH2.C6H4.CH2,
derived respectively from the three xylenes. Often used adjectively;
as, xylylene alcohol.
Xyridaceous
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Xyrideae) of
endogenous plants, of which Xyris is the type.
Xyris
(n.)
A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small
yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There
are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.