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‖ lithodomus Zool.|lɪˈθɒdəməs|
Pl. -i.
[mod.L., ad. Gr. λιθοδόµος mason, f. λίθος stone- + -δόµος building, δέµειν to build.]
A genus of small mussels which burrow in rock or stone; a mussel of this genus, a date-shell.
1833Lyell Princ. Geol. Gloss., Lithodomi, molluscous animals which bore into solid rocks, and lodge themselves in the holes they have formed. 1843W. Humble Dict. Geol. etc., Lithodomus. 1848Craig, Lithodomes, Lithodomi. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 11 The shipworm adheres to timber, and the pholas and lithodomus to limestone rocks. |