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flesh-eating

ADJECTIVE
carnivorous
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ADJECTIVE
meat-eating
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A ban on imported cattle was implemented to stem the migration of a flesh-eating parasite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Mr O'Hara, who contracted a life-threatening flesh-eating disease which caused horrific injuries, previously told Newcastle Crown Court he had become a "shell" of himself.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2024

Corman was the executive producer of this horror film about a mass of flesh-eating piranhas infesting a river.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024

“A real in-the-flesh, flesh-eating poet who also happened to be a real black woman,” said the poet Terrance Hayes, introducing a volume of her selected works in 2019.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

“These are flesh-eating horses, see? They like these conditions.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan