flesh-eating

English

Adjective

flesh-eating (not comparable)

1. That consumes flesh; meat-eating.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     His ferocious cry and the horrible energy of his pursuit both assured me that this was surely one of the great flesh-eating dinosaurs, the most terrible beasts which have ever walked this earth.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 164:

     Certain flesh-eating peoples will not partake of animal blood in any form, but require all blood to be first drained from the meat.

2. Of bacteria, necrotizing.

Derived terms

• flesh-eating disease