Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Saxicavous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Saxicavous \Sax`i*ca"vous\, a. [L. saxum rock + cavare to make
hollow, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. saxicave.] (Zo["o]l.)
Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks
which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust.
of {Lithodomus}.
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