Lithophagous

[li'θɔfәgәs]

Definition

(a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.

(a.) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.

Typist: Loretta

Definition

adj. eating stones: perforating stones as certain molluscs.

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