maneating

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)Alternative form of man-eating.

   “Well known maneating tigers were killed in several districts.”

   “1959, John Taylor, Maneaters and marauders, snippet A big maneating croc had appeared in the lagoon of Lifumba”

   “They reflect what we are, maneating gods the gods of maneating men, beautiful Olympians the gods of the first humanists.”

noun

1. (uncountable)The consumption of human flesh by animals

   “Corbett described maneating as the compulsive seeking of human flesh by carnivores”

   “In general, maneating is only an infinitesimally small factor of mortality amongst people.”