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Meaning of lithophagous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, often as an aid to digestion.
    not-comparable
  2. Eating, destroying, or burrowing into stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.
    not-comparable

Examples

“The ostrich is lithophagous.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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