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Noun: geophagia
  1. Eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behaviour
    "geophagia is sometimes observed in pregnant women with mineral deficiencies";
    - geophagy

Derived forms: geophagias

Type of: pica

Encyclopedia: Geophagia