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Meaning of 'lithophagous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Lithophagous [ a.]
- Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
- 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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