LITHOPHAGOUS


Meaning of LITHOPHAGOUS in English

( 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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