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单词 dirt eating
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Dirt eating


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

dirt eating


dirt eating

Repeated ingestion of non-nutritious and usually objectionable substances such as soil, coal, clay and paper. Medically known as pica, the practice is rare in adults except in the severely mentally retarded and sometimes in pregnant women. It is common and seldom particularly harmful in young children.
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