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What does cannibalism mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of eating another of one's own species.
  2. (figuratively) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
  3. In speech, the occurrence of one word "eating" 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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The depluming itch mite is a burrowing mite that can cause feather loss and stimulate cannibalism.
It's loosely based on the true story of the only man ever convicted of cannibalism in the United States.
Of the many known kinds of cannibalism, five are now attested in archaeological remains.
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.
This sort of cannibalism is an activity that scientists have long imagined and conjectured and in fact predicted but had never seen before.

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