Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who eats human flesh; a cannibal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man-eater; a cannibal; a person who eats human flesh. Commonly in the plural.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man-eater,
cannibal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who eats human flesh
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Scientists have even found bones from members of the human lineage bearing tooth marks from this reptile, whose scientific name, Crocodylus anthropophagus, means 'man-eating crocodile.'
Archive 2010-02-21 Bill Crider 2010
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Where is the barbarian who would roast a lamb, if it conjured him by an affecting speech not to become at once an assassin, an anthropophagus?
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I have been worried to know whether this was owing to some innate depravity of disposition on my part, some malignant torturing instinct, which, under different circumstances, might have made a Fijian anthropophagus of me, or to some law of thought for which I was not answerable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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I have been worried to know whether this was owing to some innate depravity of disposition on my part, some malignant torturing instinct, which, under different circumstances, might have made a Fijian anthropophagus of me, or to some law of thought for which I was not answerable.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I have been worried to know whether this was owing to some innate depravity of disposition on my part, some malignant torturing instinct, which, under different circumstances, might have made a Fijian anthropophagus of me, or to some law of thought for which I was not answerable.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Crocodylus anthropophagus probably waited patiently for prey to come a little too close to the water's edge before snapping its huge jaws on its victims and sealing their doom.
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Lou Densmore, interim chairman of the Department of Biology, said Crocodylus anthropophagus appears to have dined on early human ancestors.
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"I remember when Chris sent me the first draft, he said 'I think we should name it anthropophagus.
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C. anthropophagus show bite marks interpreted as coming from a crocodile, "Brochu said.
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