Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hollowing out rocks, as a mollusk; lithodomous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See
Illust. oflithodomus .
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- adjective zoology
Boring orhollowing outrocks .
Etymologies
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Latin saxum rock + cavare to make hollow, from cavus hollow: compare French saxicave.
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