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GEOPHAGIA
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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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