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Meanings of flesh-eating in English

(Of animals) carnivorous.

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        Examples for "meat-eating"
        Examples for "meat-eating"
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        All these dead bison are going to draw every meat-eating animal around.
        The Mammoth Hunters
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        FOR a vegetarian in a meat-eating family, Christmas is a trial.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Robots don't actually have to come up with meat-eating plots of their own.
        Wired
        4
        Stan comes from a tall, meat-eating family in Providence, Rhode Island.
        The new yorker
        5
        As Forrest ate he watched the hunting of the meat-eating yellow-jackets.
        The Little Lady of the Big House
        1
        To be the discoverer of zoophagous mania would mark me as a coming man.
        Anno Dracula
        Usage of flesh-eating in English
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        As the virus spreads, nearly everyone turns into a bubble-skinned, flesh-eating fiend.
        Reuters
        2
        Two other cases of flesh-eating infections have been reported recently in South Carolina.
        Reuters
        3
        He is a giant, the largest flesh-eating animal in all the great world.
        The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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        I have also known ruminants take to flesh-eating when opportunity offered.
        Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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        Her flesh-eating horror movie attained notoriety when two people fainted at a screening.
        The Guardian
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        Maryland man leaves hospital after bout with flesh-eating bacteria ANNAPOLIS Md.
        Reuters
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        Two cases of flesh-eating infections have been reported recently in South Carolina as well.
        Reuters
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        Right now, I want you to tell us everything you know about flesh-eating zombies.'
        Affliction
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        One common flesh-eating bacterium, Streptococcus pyogenes, has yielded a new kind of molecular superglue.
        Wired
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        However, elves and halflings were both flesh-eating races, and halflings frequently ate human flesh.
        The nomad
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        We zombies are nothing more than a flesh-eating ant colony, but without a queen.
        Brains: a zombie memoir
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        They would swarm to the Earth's core like an army of red-backed flesh-eating ants.
        Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
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        As remarked above, only flesh-eating maggots have yet been tried.
        New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 1...
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        It looked like she had some sort of flesh-eating bacteria.
        Pretty Little Secrets
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        The wookelar had been a flesh-eating monster of some kind.
        Walking dead
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        The flesh-eating tentacle cut through his neck with startling quickness.
        Phantoms