Lithophagous

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]