WordNet
adj. (of animals) carnivorous [syn: flesh-eating(a), meat-eating(a), zoophagous]
Usage examples of "flesh-eating".
The rest of them had been killed by the same flesh-eating bacteria that wiped out the scientific mission.
It is the final triumph of the Savage Garden, and not all the scientists of civilization will ever classify every species of painted butterfly or speckled cat or flesh-eating fish or giant coiling snake, which thrives in this place.
Doom won't stay in a hotel or motel because he thinks they're all just breeding grounds for legionnaires' disease and that gross flesh-eating bacteria, whatever it's called.
At lunch with her one day, Hamilton and I learned the rigors of medicine thirty-six-hour days, gorgon floor nurses, and flesh-eating bacteria lying in wait around every corner.
They hint at flesh-eating lilies by the pond at the path's end, and you find nothing more prone to sarcophagy than harmless primulas.