geophagy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

From geo- + -phagy.

[161] It is not impossible that the clay may have saline properties; in any case among all these tribes geophagy is very common, especially with the non-cocainists, the women and children. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen

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