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n. [Gr. oion, egg; phagein, to eat]1. The eating of eggs; egg cannibalism.2. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta)In social insects, eating its own or nestmate\'s eggs.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
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