Man-eater

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Man-eater \Man"-eat`er\, n. (Zool.)
     One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh;
     specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. {Carcharodon
     carcharias} syn. {Carcharodon Rondeleti}); also, a lion or a
     tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human
     flesh.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  man-eater
       n 1: a person who eats human flesh [syn: {cannibal}, {anthropophagus},
             {anthropophagite}]
       2: large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to
          attack humans [syn: {great white shark}, {white shark}, {man-eating
          shark}, {Carcharodon carcharias}]