cannibalistic
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“The prose is incredible and it absolutely was a cut above. Not to use a cannibalistic meat pun.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But Green, who oversaw that recovery project, said the bog bush cricket would be more difficult to rear because it can be cannibalistic and has a longer, two-year life cycle.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
When a colony’s space was deliberately restricted, according to the voice-over, “asexual, cannibalistic rats preyed on their abandoned young.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
Mormon crickets are cannibalistic and will feast on each other, dead or alive, if not satiated with protein.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
