geophagy
基本解释
- n.食土的習俗；食土癖
英汉例句
- To get rid of livestock's disease of paralysis, cartilage and also can prevent pig and chicken's geophagy.
防避畜禽軟骨症、癱瘓症、以及防止豬、雞的異食癖症; - It may also explain why geophagy is often most common among pregnant women and nursing mothers.
這也或可解釋喫土習慣爲何在孕婦和哺乳的母親身上通常最爲常見。 - Unfortunately, geophagy is also practiced to avoid hunger pains when other food is scarce.
遺憾的是，一旦其他食物缺乏，人們也喫土以避免挨餓之苦。 - Geophagy also has a long history in the U.S., where some eat clay and ship packages of it to relatives far from home.
喫土的做法在美國也歷史悠久，有些人會喫土，還寄一包包泥土給客居他鄕的親人。 - Yet, geophagy is actually relatively common practice in many parts of the world.
對，食土辟實際上在世界各地相對來講是較爲普遍的。