creophagous
/krɪˈɒfəɡəs
/(also kreophagous)
adjective rare
Flesh-eating or carnivorous: crocodiles are creophagous animals...
- For the more creophagous of us, there is gulasz, gently stewed cubes of beef in a brown gravy.
- It is known that insects both of a creophagous and saprophagous nature, gradually diminish in relative numbers from the poles to the equator.
- We found hundreds of wild donkeys and other creophagous animals such as foxes and lynx.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek kreophagus, from kreas 'flesh' + -phagos (see -phagous).