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Lithophagous
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adjective
Lithophagous
adj. (Zool.)
(a)
Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
(b)
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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