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chthonophagy

chthonophagy is the alternative form of chthonophagia.

Meaning of chthonophagia

Noun

chthonophagia (uncountable)

  1. A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.

Questions about chthonophagy

What is chthonophagy the alternative form of?
Chthonophagy is the alternative form of chthonophagia.

Words near chthonophagy in the dictionary

  1. chthonic laws
  2. chthonicity
  3. chthoniid
  4. chthoniids
  5. chthonophagia
  6. chthonophagy
  7. chtonic
  8. chtr.
  9. chtrs.
  10. chu
  11. chu nom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chthonophagy (page history and authors); chthonophagia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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