Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun geophagy

1 sense of geophagy

Sense 1
geophagy, geophagia -- (eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior)
       => pica -- (an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently)