cannibalistic
adjective uk/ˈkæn.ɪ.bəlˈɪs.tɪk/ us/ˈkæn.ə.bəlˈɪs.tɪk/
(人)食人肉的;(动物)同类相食的
used to describe a person who eats human flesh, or an animal that eats the flesh of animals of its own type
a cannibalistic killer 食人凶手
Spiders are very cannibalistic. 同类相食在蜘蛛中很常见。
See: cannibal
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- The novel is about a cannibalistic, mass-murdering psychiatrist.
- Historians dispute the tribe's reported cannibalistic tendencies.
- Crabs are cannibalistic - the hard ones eat the soft ones, which have shed their shells to grow.
- Cannibalistic feeding, whereby cows ate the remains of other cattle, is now banned.