Usually means: Consumption of same species' flesh.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. cannibalism: Merriam-Webster
  2. cannibalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cannibalism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cannibalism: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cannibalism, cannibalism: Wordnik
  6. cannibalism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cannibalism: Wiktionary
  8. cannibalism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cannibalism: Dictionary.com
  10. Cannibalism (album), Cannibalism (disambiguation), Cannibalism (poultry), Cannibalism (zoology), Cannibalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cannibalism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cannibalism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. cannibalism: Rhymezone
  14. Cannibalism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cannibalism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. cannibalism: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cannibalism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cannibalism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cannibalism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cannibalism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. cannibalism: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. cannibalism: Anthropological Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cannibalism: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of eating another of one's own species.
noun:  (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
noun:  (linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".

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