GEOPHAGIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior

Synonyms:

geophagia; geophagy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("geophagia" is a kind of...):

pica (an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently)

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