'Lithophagous' definitions:
Definition of 'Lithophagous'
From: GCIDE
- Lithophagous \Li*thoph"a*gous\, a. [Litho- + Gr. ? to eat.] (Zool.) (a) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich. (b) 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. [1913 Webster]