Malthus
Meanings
name
- A surname from Middle English.
- Ellipsis of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.
Word forms
Etymology
Compare Malthouse.
Derived words
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