Associations to the word «Geophagy»

Wiktionary

GEOPHAGY, noun. The practice of eating earthy substances such as clay and chalk, often thought to augment a mineral-deficient diet.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca