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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King