† Negro-cachexyn.Obsoleterare the eating of soil (as a form of pica); geophagy.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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Negro-cachexy1820
rhypophagy1881
1820 R. HooperMed. Lex. (ed. 4) 587/2Negro cachexy,..a propensity for eating earth, peculiar to males as well as females, in the West Indies and Africa.