Chthonophagy
- n. A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.