anthropophagous
/ˌæn.θɹəˈpɒ.fə.ɡəs/
anthropophagous adjective: who practices anthropophagy; cannibalistic.
Adjective
anthropophagous (not comparable)
- Who practices anthropophagy; cannibalistic.
- an anthropophagous tribe
- The bullet struck her in the back and killed her, and to this day I am glad that it did, for, as it afterwards transpired, she had availed herself of the anthropophagous customs of the Amahagger to organise the whole thing in revenge of the slight put upon her by Job.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
anthropophagous meaning in Tamil and Bengali
anthropophagous in Tamil
- மனிதரைத் தின்னுகிற
anthropophagous in Bengali
- নরখাদক
Origin of anthropophagous
From anthropo- + -phagous.
Words formed from anthropophagous
Questions about anthropophagous
- What does anthropophagous mean?
- Anthropophagous means who practices anthropophagy; cannibalistic.
- What is anthropophagous in Tamil?
- Anthropophagous in Tamil is மனிதரைத் தின்னுகிற. See Anthropophagous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is anthropophagous?
- Anthropophagous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce anthropophagous?
- Anthropophagous is pronounced /ˌæn.θɹəˈpɒ.fə.ɡəs/.
Words near anthropophagous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anthropophagous (page history and authors); anthropophagous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anthropophagous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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