Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Eating stones; swallowing gravel, as a bird.
- Perforating or penetrating stones, as the Lithophaga; lithodomous.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Eating or swallowing stones or gravel.
- adj. zoology Eating or destroying stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
- adj. 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.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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lithophilia
Words made using "lith/o" where it means rock or stone, not including those formed in the body.
Yoinked from the list found here.xenolith, uranolith, trilith, stromatolith, spongolith, regolith, psammolithic, protolith, prepalaeolith, polylith, phytolith, photolith and 60 more...
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You Are What You Eat, Part II
adephagous, algophagous, androphagous, anthophagous, anthropophagous, aphidophagous, arachnophagous, bacteriophagous, batrachophagous, biophagous, carpophagous, coprophagous and 47 more...
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