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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The practice of eating earthy substances such as clay and chalk, often during famines or thought to augment a mineral-deficient diet. uncountable
2. 2
   eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior wordnet

Synonyms

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cultural geophagyearth eatingearth ingestiongeophagiaritual earth eatingsoil eating

Antonyms

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nongeophagy

Etymology

From geo- + -phagy.