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Geophagy

Definition: Geophagy

Geophagy

Noun

1. Eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Geophagy

Synonyms: geophagia (n), pica (n). (additional references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Geophagy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
geophagy	10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Geophagy

Language		Translations for "geophagy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Farsi		گل خوری , زمین خواری , خاک خوری . (various references)

Pig Latin		eophagygay

Vietnamese		thói ăn đất. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Geophagy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-o-p-y"
	-1 letter: hypogea.
	-3 letters: hoagy, phage, pogey.
	-4 letters: agog, ahoy, eggy, epha, gage, gape, gapy, heap, hogg, hope, hoya, hype, hypo, opah, page, peag, pogy, yeah, yegg, yoga, yogh.
	-5 letters: age, ago, ape, aye, egg, ego, gae, gag, gap, gay, gey, goa, goy, gyp, hae, hag, hao, hap, hay, hep, hey, hoe, hog, hop, hoy, hyp.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-h-o-p-y"
	+1 letter: geography.
	+4 letters: biogeography, zoogeography.
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Alternative Orthography: Geophagy

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 6F 70 68 61 67 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101000 01100001 01100111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#111 &#112 &#104 &#97 &#103 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006F 0070 0068 0061 0067 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4171818274677391

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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