lithophagous
Meanings
adj
- Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, often as an aid to digestion.
- Eating, destroying, or burrowing into stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.
Word forms
Etymology
From litho- + -phagous.
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