famine
Extreme shortage of food in a region.
Other meanings
A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
Severe shortage or lack of something.
Related words
- antifamine
- faminee
- faminelike
- postfamine
- prefamine
- famine bread
- famine fever
- time famine
- famine food
- famine resistant
- famine weed
- nuclear famine
Word history
From Latin "fames".
Where this comes from
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