OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10869

cannibal

/ˈkænɪbəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caníbal
An organism which eats others of its own or similar species or kind, especially a human or other human-like creature such as a zombie who consumes human flesh.
These insects were not uncommon beneath stones. I found one cannibal scorpion quietly devouring another.
Up the cave I went, and after me came the others, and after them thundered the whole crowd of cannibals, mad with fury at the death of the woman.
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