Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inhabiting rocks; saxicoline; lithodomous, as a mollusk. See cuts under date-shell, Petricolidæ, and piddock.
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- adjective Rock-dwelling; living among or on rocks
Etymologies
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From Latin petra ("a rock") + colō ("to inhabit")
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