Dirt eating


Also found in: Medical.
The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism.
(Med.) Same as Chthonophagia.
- Humboldt.

See also: Dirt, Dirt

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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