lithophagous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, often as an aid to digestion.
  2. Eating, destroying, or burrowing into stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.

Word forms

lithophagous

Etymology

From litho- + -phagous.

Related words

lithophagy gastrolith Lithodomus pholad borings
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