GEOPHAGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geophagy mean? 

• GEOPHAGY (noun)
  The noun GEOPHAGY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GEOPHAGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOPHAGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

geophagia; geophagy

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

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