These termites are voracious feeders and will consume wood, cardboard and paper and sometimes even fabric.

This is because of the large size of its colonies, and the termites' ability to consume wood at a rapid rate.

The steamboats consumed much wood for fuel, and the river floodplain and banks became deforested.

Kira turned to the table of contents, the brittle pages crackling beneath her touch, the sound like that of flames consuming dead wood.

This arrangement was terminated as it apparently consumed too much valuable wood.

Behind her she could hear the walls collapse, could hear the roar of flames consuming wood.

The larvae consume wood.

The people he had known here would never have voluntarily consumed wood for any purpose.

Various lignicolous fungi consume wood in various ways; for example, some attack the carbohydrates in wood, and some others decay lignin.

Her voice shook like the torchlight; like flames consuming wood which had dried for decades.