stone-swallowing; rock-boring; eating rock
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• (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.
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Li·thoph'a·gous adjective [
Litho- + Greek ... to eat.]
(Zoology) (a) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
(b) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and...
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lithophage, lithophagous, lithophagic, lithophagy 1. Usually a reference to organisms that erode or bore into rocks. 2. Eating small stones, as with some birds. Related 'eat, eating' word units: brycho-; esculent-; esophago-; glutto-; vor-.
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