gerontophagy

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noun

The eating of the elderly.

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Meanings

noungerontophagy (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyThe eating of the elderly.

    Unlike species of solitary spiders, in which gerontophagy (the consumption of elderly individuals) is confined to the mother and her offspring, social Stegodyphus have a more varied menu […]

    2001, Judith Goodenough, Betty McGuire, Robert A. Wallace, Perspectives on animal behavior, page 341

Origin

From geronto- + -phagy.

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