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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024can•ni•bal /ˈkænəbəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Anthropologya person or animal that practices cannibalism.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024can•ni•bal (kan′ə bəl),USA pronunciation n. - Anthropologya person who eats human flesh, esp. for magical or religious purposes, as among certain tribal peoples.
- any animal that eats its own kind.
adj. - pertaining to or characteristic of a cannibal.
- 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
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