mycophagy vs eating

mycophagy and eating both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mycophagy	Yes	No	No	No
eating	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, eating is a hypernym of mycophagy; that is, eating is a word with a broader meaning than mycophagy:

mycophagy: the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
eating: the act of consuming food

Other hypernyms of mycophagy include feeding.

mycophagy (noun)	eating (noun)
the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)	the act of consuming food