anthropophage.

A person or creature that consumes human flesh.

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Words that belong together

• a legendary anthropophage
• accounts of an anthropophage

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The legend named the creature an anthropophage.

She distinguished the fictional anthropophage from the unsupported claims about the actual community.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular anthropophage; plural anthropophages. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.