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