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单词 cannibal
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
can•ni•bal /ˈkænəbəl/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Anthropologya person or animal that practices cannibalism.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
can•ni•bal  (kanə bəl),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Anthropologya person who eats human flesh, esp. for magical or religious purposes, as among certain tribal peoples.
  2. any animal that eats its own kind.

adj. 
  1. pertaining to or characteristic of a cannibal.
  2. given to cannibalism.
  • Arawak) + -al -al1; from the belief that the Caribs of the West Indies ate human flesh
  • Spanish caníbal, variant of caríbal, equivalent. to canib-, carib- (
  • 1545–55
canni•bal•ly, adv. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
cannibal /ˈkænɪbəl/ n
  1. a person who eats the flesh of other human beings
  2. (as modifier): cannibal tribes
  3. an animal that feeds on the flesh of others of its kind
Etymology: 16th Century: from Spanish Canibales, name used by Columbus to designate the Caribs of Cuba and Haiti, from Arawak caniba, variant of Carib
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