The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromξύλον“wood”
- English todayxylotomous
Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”) + τομία (tomía, “cut”), from τέμνειν (témnein, “to cut”)
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekξύλον all →
xylemmoroxylic acidxylon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.