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单词 flesh-eating
释义

flesh-eating

adjective

flesh-eat·​ing ˈflesh-ˌē-tiŋ How to pronounce flesh-eating (audio)
: feeding on or destroying flesh or soft tissue
A Kentucky man was diagnosed with a flesh-eating infection after he went camping along the Green River. Dayton (Ohio) Daily News
… infestation by blowflies whose eggs hatch into flesh-eating maggots. Kerry Capell
But according to Eugenie Clark, a University of Maryland zoologist, "the white shark, the largest flesh-eating fish, is anything but a mindless, constant eating machine." Discover
Natural history buffs will find … a 145-million-year-old foot from the Allosaur, one of the largest flesh-eating dinosaurs … Carolyn Hughes Crowley
see also flesh-eating bacterium, flesh-eating disease

Word History

First Known Use

1588, in the meaning defined above

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