Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shellfish which lives in a hole made by it in a rock, as a date-shell or a piddock. See
Lithodomus and Pholas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any member of several
species ofbivalves that form and inhabitholes inlimestone ; especially any of thegenus Lithodomus.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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