Definition of cannibalism in English:
cannibalism
nounˈkanɪbəˌlɪz(ə)mˈkænɪbəlɪzəm
mass nounThe 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.