Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pathological stony mass formed in the stomach; gastric calculus.
- noun A small stone found in the stomach of some reptiles, fish, and birds that aids in digestion by helping grind ingested food material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gastric concretion or calculus; a stony concretion in the stomach; a bezoar; specifically, one of the concretions called crabs' eyes in the stomach of some crustaceans, as the crawfish. See
eye , n., 12.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See Crab's eyes, under
crab .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology rocks which are or have been held inside the digestive tract of an animal to aid in buoyancy or food processing.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Taken from gastro-, meaning stomach, and -lith, related to stone.
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johnmperry commented on the word gastrolith
n.
July 15, 2008
bilby commented on the word gastrolith
Neat word.
July 16, 2008