embryophagy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of one embryo cannibalizing another for food in utero; at present only observed in some species of sharks. uncountable

词源

From Latin embryo and the suffix -phagy (“to feed on”); 1948; created to describe the behavior of sandtiger shark embryos.
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