LITH'ONTRIPTOR, LITH'ONTRIPTY, LITHOPH'AGOUS, adjective [Gr. stone, and to eat.] Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
LITH'ONTRIPTOR, LITH'ONTRIPTY, LITHOPH'AGOUS, adjective [Gr. stone, and to eat.] Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
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