木食，读音mù shí，汉语词语，以山中野树果实充饥。形容隐逸之士远离世事。出自《山海经·西山经》。
他们的重要发现包括一种深海鲨鱼和一种海星，前者可以把胃部充满水来使身体胀大，从而吓跑捕食者，后者则只以浮木为食。
Their notable finds included a deep-sea shark that swells its size by filling its stomach with water to scare off other predators, and a starfish that eats only driftwood.
当2006年科学家在秘鲁的亚马逊雨林发现这种盔甲食木鲶鱼时，它正在啃食一棵倒在圣安娜河中的枯木。
A new species of armored, wood-eating catfish (pictured underwater) found in the Amazon rain forest feeds on a fallen tree in the Santa Ana River in Peru in 2006.
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