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Anthropophagous vs Anthropophagi - What's the difference?

anthropophagous | anthropophagi | Derived terms |

Anthropophagous is a derived term of anthropophagi.


As an adjective anthropophagous

is who practices anthropophagy "antropophagous tribes ".

As a noun anthropophagi is

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anthropophagous

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Who practices anthropophagy. "Antropophagous tribes ".
  • Cannibal.

    • anthropophagi

    English

    (wikipedia anthropophagi)

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1581 "Histories make mention of a people called Anthropophagi, eaters of men." (B. Gilpin, A godly sermon preached in the court at Greenwich )
  • * 1837 "A poor New Zealander, whose forefathers had from time immemorial been anthropophagi." (J. D. Lang, An historical and statistical account of New South Wales I. 386)
  • *
    • ''It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;
    ''And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
    ''The Anthropophagi , and men whose heads
    ''Do grow beneath their shoulders.

    Alternative forms

    * capitalized Anthropophagi, as the name of a supposed people of man-eaters in ancient ethnography.

    Derived terms

    * Adjective anthropophagous ----