can·ni·bal 
(kănə-bəl)
(kănə-bəl)n.
1. A person who eats the flesh of other humans.
2. An animal that feeds on others of its own kind.
[From Spanish Caníbalis, name (as recorded by Christopher Columbus) of the allegedly cannibalistic Caribs of Cuba and Haiti, from earlier Carib karibna, person, Carib.]
canni·bal·ism n.
can′ni·bal·istic adj.