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anthropophagus
an-thruh-PAW-fuh-guhs
noun
one who consumes human flesh; a cannibal
1859Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Professor at the Breakfast TableI 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.1965Harry HarrisonBill: The Galactic HeroFine sentry, an anthropophagus from Dapdrof, eat you in an instant if you don't give the right password for the day.

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