What is "maneaters"

Usage examples of "maneaters".

Nearly all of it has some animal attributes and nearly all of it is carnivorous, the smaller plants devouring insects, the larger, in turn, depending upon the larger animals for sustenance on up to the maneaters such as I had encountered and those which Han Du said caught and devoured even the hugest animals that exist upon this strange planet.

And I seen maneaters in Peru that eats corpses and the livers of horses.