geophagy

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun geophagy has 1 sense

  • geophagy(n = noun.act) geophagia - eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior; Array
  • is a kind of pica

OXFORD DICTIONARY

geophagy, n. the practice of eating earth.

Etymology
GEO- + Gk phago eat

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