Coprophagy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or an instance of eating feces. uncountable

    "We use "coprophagy" as the simplest available general term to describe ingestion of the feces, without any implication of cause, circumstances, or the origin or nature of fecal material consumed."

  2. 2
    eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity wordnet

Synonyms

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coprophagiascatophagiascatophagy

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"We use "coprophagy" as the simplest available general term to describe ingestion of the feces, without any implication of cause, circumstances, or the origin or nature of fecal material consumed."

Etymology

From copro- (“excrement”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).

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