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MAN-EATER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans

Synonyms:

Carcharodon carcharias; great white shark; man-eater; man-eating shark; white shark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("man-eater" is a kind of...):

mackerel shark (fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks)

Holonyms ("man-eater" is a member of...):

Carcharodon; genus Carcharodon (man-eating sharks)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who eats human flesh

Synonyms:

anthropophagite; anthropophagus; cannibal; man-eater

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("man-eater" is a kind of...):

barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)

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