anthropophagi

American  

[an-thruh-pof-uh-jahy, -gahy] / ˌæn θrəˈpɒf əˌdʒaɪ, -ˌgaɪ /

plural noun

singular

anthropophagus

1. eaters of human flesh; cannibals.

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anthropophagi British  

/ ˌænθrəˈpɒfəˌɡaɪ /

plural noun

1. cannibals

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Etymology

Origin of anthropophagi

1545–55; < Latin, plural of anthrōpophagus cannibal < Greek anthrōpophágos man-eating. See anthropo-, -phage, -phagous

Example Sentences

The book mostly takes place in and around the Vorrh, an uncharted and unknowable forest in Africa filled with John of Mandeville’s anthropophagi and other unknown monsters.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2015

This classical friend also says that the ladies, as viewed at present with their bonnets hanging behind them, look like female anthropophagi, or "monsters whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders."

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

He begins to think of "antres huge and deserts vast, and anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders."

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

Are they anthropophagi, or are they of a friendly disposition?

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

"Of moving accidents by flood and field; And of the cannibals that each other eat; The anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders!"

From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by Sleeper, John Sherburne