
Noah Webster
Lithophyte
LITH'OPHYTE, noun [Gr. stone, and a plant; literally, stone-plant.]
Stone-coral; a name given to those species of polypiers, whose substance is stony. The older naturalists classed them with vegetables.

LITH'OPHYTE, noun [Gr. stone, and a plant; literally, stone-plant.]
Stone-coral; a name given to those species of polypiers, whose substance is stony. The older naturalists classed them with vegetables.