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

  • Most earthworms are decomposers feeding on undecayed leaf and other plant matter, others are more geophagous.

    portland indymedia - features 2009

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