Usually means: Severe scarcity of food resources.
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  1. famines: Merriam-Webster
  2. famines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. famines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Famine's, Famines, famines: Wordnik
  5. famines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. famines: Wiktionary
  7. famines: Dictionary.com
  8. Famines, The Famines (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Famines: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. famine's: Wordnik

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  1. Famines: Legal dictionary

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(Note: See famine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Famine)

noun:  (uncountable) Extreme shortage of food in a region.
noun:  (countable) A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
noun:  (dated) Starvation or malnutrition.
noun:  Severe shortage or lack of something.
noun:  (mythology) The personification of famine, often depicted riding a black horse.
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