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Lithophagous
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(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.
(2):
(a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lithophagous'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/l/lithophagous.html. 1828.