Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eating stones; swallowing gravel, as a bird.
  • Perforating or penetrating stones, as the Lithophaga; lithodomous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
  • adjective 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Eating or swallowing stones or gravel.
  • adjective zoology Eating or destroying stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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