CANNIBALISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of eating the flesh of your own kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cannibalism" is a kind of...):

pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cannibalism"):

anthropophagy (human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh)

Derivation:

cannibalistic (characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism)

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