Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Lithophagous

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Lithophagous


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(1):

(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.

(2):

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