calcivorous
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Calcivorous — Cal*civ o*rous, a. [L. calx lime + vorare to devour.] Eroding, or eating into, limestone. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
calcivorous — a. applied to plants thriving on limestone … Dictionary of difficult words
Feeding and Eating — Like many people, I enjoy eating perhaps too much so. This list of 113 words describes different things one could eat, although a human would have to be pretty desperate to eat lice or limestone. Then again, I ve eaten at McDonald s hundreds of… … Phrontistery dictionary
