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 orgravel . - adjective zoology Eating or destroying
stone , like somemollusks ,sponges ,annelids , andsea urchins .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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