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can·ni·bal·ize
/ ˈkanəbəˌlīz/
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v. [tr.]
1.
use (a machine) as a source of spare parts for another, similar machine.
∎
use (the creative work of others) in one's own art:
high culture should cannibalize mass culture.
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(of a company) reduce (the sales of one of its products) by introducing a similar, competing product.
2.
(of an animal) eat (an animal of its own kind).
DERIVATIVES:
can·ni·bal·i·za·tion
/ ˌkanəbələˈzāshən/ n.
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Comparison of the incidence of sibling cannibalism between male-killing Spiroplasma infected and uninfected clutches of a predatory ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Magazine article from: European Journal of Entomology; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Key words. Sibling cannibalism, Coccinellidae, Spiroplasma...Abstract. The incidence of sibling cannibalism in clutches of Harmonia axyridis...compensation was realized by sibling cannibalism was investigated. Primarily the...
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Density dependence, hatching synchrony, and within-cohort cannibalism in young dragonfly larvae.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...INTRODUCTION Ecologists generally recognize cannibalism as a density-dependent mechanism having...To stabilize population numbers, cannibalism, along with other mortality sources...In tree-hole damselfly larvae, cannibalism stabilizes densities at levels (one...
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Cannibalism regulates densities of young wolf spiders: evidence from field and laboratory experiments.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Oraze and Grigarick postulated cannibalism to be the DD mortality factor...from natural enemies and/or cannibalism was the major cause of the density...convergence (Wise and Wagner 1992). Cannibalism has been postulated to be an important...
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Cannibalism and the colonial world. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...MARGARET IVERSEN (eds). Cannibalism and the colonial world. xiv...sterling]13.95 (paper) Is cannibalism dead? No, not exactly. Interest...scepticism about reported acts of cannibalism continue to grow in the academic...
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Factors affecting cannibalism among newly hatched wolf spiders (Lycosidae, Pardosa amentata).
Magazine article from: Journal of Arachnology; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT. Cannibalism is a common phenomenon among young...without prey and to measure if and when cannibalism happened. From the data, we identified...tested if maternal effects influenced cannibalism, i.e. if siblings from certain...
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Eating your enemy: Richard Sugg searches history to explain the phenomenon of aggressive cannibalism, following recent allegations from Iraq.
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...affords many such examples of aggressive cannibalism used to terrorize enemies. For many, the idea of cannibalism is suffused with such horror as to...for colonial tyranny. Yet genuine cannibalism has clearly occurred in some tribal...
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Evidence Found of Cannibalism In Ice Age; Expert Hopes Bones Will Settle Controversy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...evidence yet that Neanderthals practiced cannibalism. At the Moula-Guercy cave site on...the often bitter debate over whether cannibalism existed among human ancestors. But...quell arguments over how widespread cannibalism was in the prehistoric past or whether...
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Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Magazine article from: Anthropological Quarterly; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Beth A. Conklin...in anthropology that are as exotic as cannibalism. We might like to think of ourselves...the thought of eating human flesh. Cannibalism, as much as any other practice, still...
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Cannibalism: a white colonist fiction?
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...insistence on the prevalence of cannibalism in Aboriginal society". He claimed...conflated Aboriginal hearsay about cannibalism and mythological accounts". It is...influence on current thinking about cannibalism in Australia, but his comments led...
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The cannibal's signature: clues on prehistoric bones may flesh out cannibalism. (Anasazi Indians of the southwestern United States)
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/2/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...not only regarding whether prehistoric cannibalism existed, but whether scientists can...an isolated instance of prehistoric cannibalism in the southwest, White adds. A similar...sites, White concludes in Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346 (1992, Princeton...
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Cannibalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
CANNIBALISM CANNIBALISM. There is certainly no shortage of information on cannibalism. A search at any good library will net twenty to thirty books on the topic, and, at the time this encyclopedia went to press, the World Wide Web contained...
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cannibalism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cannibalism [Span. caníbal, referring...flesh by other humans. The charge of cannibalism is a common insult, and it is likely...that ancient societies did practice cannibalism, and it has been observed in Africa...
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galaxy cannibalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
galaxy cannibalism The ingestion of a small galaxy by a much larger one, in contrast...around giant and supergiant ellipticals are believed to result from cannibalism, which may occur quite frequently at the centres of galaxy clusters...
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Kuru
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...Papua, New Guinea, who practiced cannibalism. KEYWORDS for searching the Internet and other reference sources Cannibalism Neuromuscular system Prions Spongiform...Eventually, he traced the problem to cannibalism, the eating of human flesh by another...
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Werewolf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Origins The belief in werewolves may be a relic of early cannibalism. Communities of semicivilized people would begin to shun...evidenced by numerous trials, in some of which murder and cannibalism took place. Self-hallucination may have accounted for...
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