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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

maneating en · ADJ

From man + eating.

(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of man-eating.
alt of man-eating
- Well known maneating tigers were killed in several districts. 1907, Fur-fish-game, volumes 5-6, page 129:
- They reflect what we are, maneating gods the gods of maneating men, beautiful Olympians the gods of the first humanists. 1998, Stephen P Fishelman, The Measure of Man, page 84:
- 1959, John Taylor, Maneaters and marauders, snippet A big maneating croc had appeared in the lagoon of Lifumba

From man + eating.

(uncountable) The consumption of human flesh by animals
- Corbett described maneating as the compulsive seeking of human flesh by carnivores 1993, Arjan Singh, The legend of the maneater, page 83:
- In general, maneating is only an infinitesimally small factor of mortality amongst people. 2002, Hans Kruuk, Hunter and hunted: relationships between carnivores and people, page 75: