Usually means: Eating feces for nutritional recovery.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rhypophagy)

▸ noun:  (rare) The feeding on filth

Similar:
chthonophagy, creophagia, scatophagia, coprophagia, rhypophobia, chthonophagia, psomophagy, omophagy, autophagia, zoophagia, more...

Opposite:
hyperphagy, polyphagy, omnivory

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Similar:
chthonophagy, creophagia, scatophagia, coprophagia, rhypophobia, chthonophagia, psomophagy, omophagy, autophagia, zoophagia, more...

Opposite:
hyperphagy, polyphagy, omnivory



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