Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Earth-eating: as, geophagous tribes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Earth-eating.
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- adjective
Eating earth .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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Most earthworms are decomposers feeding on undecayed leaf and other plant matter, others are more geophagous.
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