(n) plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta, Syn.Lithophragma parviflorum
a. [ Litho- + Gr. &unr_; 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 ]
n. [ Litho- + Gr. fai`nein to show, reveal. ] Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as in a lamp shade or when hung in a window. -- Lith`o*phan"ic a. -- Li*thoph"a*ny n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ Litho- + Gr. &unr_; a flatus, air bubble. ] (Min.) A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Litho- + Gr. &unr_; plant: cf. F. lithophyte. ] (Zool.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals. [ 1913 Webster ]
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