gastrolith

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• Gastrolith — Gas tro*lith, n. [Gastro + lith.] (Zo[ o]l.) See {Crab s eyes}, under {Crab}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Gastrolith — Gastroliths ( stomach stones or gizzard stones ) are rocks, which are or have been held inside the digestive tract of an animal. Among living vertebrates, gastroliths are common among herbivorous birds, crocodiles, alligators, seals and sea lions …   Wikipedia



• Gastrolith — Gastrolithen von Plesiosauriern Gastrolit …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• gastrolith — noun Date: 1854 a stone or pebble ingested by an animal and functioning to grind food in gastric digestion …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• gastrolith — a stone in the stomach, deliberately ingested to aid in grinding food …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• gastrolith — n. [Gr. gaster, stomach; lithos, stone] (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) In Decapoda, a discoidal calcareous nodule, commonly found in the stomodeum …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• gastrolith — гастролит …   Англо-русский геологический словарь

• gastrolith — /gas treuh lith/, n. Pathol. a calculous concretion in the stomach. [1850 55; GASTRO + LITH] * * * …   Universalium

• gastrolith — noun rocks which are or have been held inside the digestive tract of an animal to aid in buoyancy or food processing …   Wiktionary

• gastrolith — Discoid calcareous nodule common in stomodeum of some decapods [Moore and McCormick, 1969]. (Order Decapoda): Disc shaped, calcareous nodule in anterior region of cardiac stomach [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Decapoda): Discoid calcareous nodule,… …   Crustacea glossary