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lithophagous

/li'θɔfә^әs/

📖 中文释义

  1. a. [动]食石的
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. a. Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the
  2. ostrich.
  3. a. Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various
  4. animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain
  5. sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.