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adj. - Of or relating to eaters of human flesh.

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Usage examples (19)
  • Their pagan and, we regret to say, anthropophagous habits laid them open to a certain amount of criticism.
  • I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised...
  • The Colonial government refused permission for mining, both because of Coral's colonists 'wishes to keep the planet whole, and because the Rraey's anthropophagous...
  • Caribs are perhaps the least anthropophagous nations of the New
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