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n. - A person who eats human flesh.

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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?
  • Scientists have even found bones from members of the human lineage bearing tooth marks from this reptile, whose scientific name, Crocodylus anthropophagus, means...
  • Lou Densmore, interim chairman of the Department of Biology, said Crocodylus anthropophagus appears to have dined on early human ancestors.
  • 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...
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