The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geophagous
Geophagous \Ge*oph"a*gous\, a. Earth-eating.
Wiktionary
geophagous
a. eat earth.
Usage examples of "geophagous".
The Brothers were severely censured for encouraging geophagous inclinations among the local nobility, whose ladies they had inspirited with a craving for the taste of the local earth, as seasoning, or a dish in itself: it was, after all, Spanish earth.