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lithophagous
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lithophagousadjective
Eating or swallowing stones or gravel.
The ostrich is lithophagous.
lithophagousadjective
Eating or destroying stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.
Webster Dictionary
Lithophagousadjective
eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich
Lithophagousadjective
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
Etymology: [Litho- + Gr. to eat.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lithophagous
lith-of′a-gus, adj. eating stones: perforating stones, as certain molluscs. [Gr. lithos, stone, phagein, to eat.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lithophagous in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lithophagous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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