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English Dictionary: man-eater by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
man-eater
n
  1. a person who eats human flesh [syn: cannibal, {man- eater}, anthropophagus, anthropophagite]
  2. large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
    Synonym(s): great white shark, white shark, man- eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Man-eater \Man"-eat`er\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh;
      specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. {Carcharodon
      Rondeleti}); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the
      habit of feeding upon human flesh.
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