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单词 cannibalism
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Definition of cannibalism in English:

cannibalism

nounˈkanɪbəˌlɪz(ə)mˈkænɪbəlɪzəm
mass noun
  • The practice of eating the flesh of one's own species.

    the film is quite disturbing at points with references to cannibalism
    to avoid cannibalism caterpillars were reared individually
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Its narrator is a 23-year-old woman whose obsession with cannibalism may be more than academic.
    • Variation in foraging vigor of certain female spiders predicts the occurrence of sexual cannibalism.
    • We investigate the adaptive value of cannibalism in this orb-web spider, where 60 percent of males do not survive copulation.
    • Ecologically, cannibalism is just a special form of predation, functioning to increase access to animal food.
    • It's loosely based on the true story of the only man ever convicted of cannibalism in the United States.
    • In a few fish, reducing brood size sometimes leads to total brood cannibalism.
    • A similar dynamic is at work in his reference to cannibalism among the native tribes.
    • Cannibalism was one method of establishing otherness in early modern representations of all three groups.
    • They offer the most complex discussions of cannibalism among the Iroquois.
    • Cannibalism never appears within the human boundaries of this imagined community.
 
 

Definition of cannibalism in US English:

cannibalism

nounˈkænɪbəlɪzəmˈkanibəlizəm
  • The practice of eating the flesh of one's own species.

    the film is quite disturbing at points with references to cannibalism
    to avoid cannibalism caterpillars were reared individually
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cannibalism was one method of establishing otherness in early modern representations of all three groups.
    • In a few fish, reducing brood size sometimes leads to total brood cannibalism.
    • Cannibalism never appears within the human boundaries of this imagined community.
    • Variation in foraging vigor of certain female spiders predicts the occurrence of sexual cannibalism.
    • Its narrator is a 23-year-old woman whose obsession with cannibalism may be more than academic.
    • It's loosely based on the true story of the only man ever convicted of cannibalism in the United States.
    • We investigate the adaptive value of cannibalism in this orb-web spider, where 60 percent of males do not survive copulation.
    • Ecologically, cannibalism is just a special form of predation, functioning to increase access to animal food.
    • A similar dynamic is at work in his reference to cannibalism among the native tribes.
    • They offer the most complex discussions of cannibalism among the Iroquois.
 
 
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