Vocabulary : Xylophilous to Xylotomist

Xylophilous : Of or pertaining to the xylophilans.
Xylophone : 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. ;; An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood.
Xyloplastic : Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made of wood pulp in molds.
Xylopyrography : The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker.
Xyloquinone : 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 : A derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline substance which on exposure in the air becomes red; -- called also betaorcin.
Xylose : An unfermentable sugar of the pentose class, C5H10O5, formed by the hydrolysis of xylan; wood sugar.
Xylostein : A glucoside found in the poisonous berries of a species of honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
Xylotile : Same as Parkesine.
Xylotomist : One versed or engaged in xylotomy.

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