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Lithophagous
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
2. 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.