flesh-eating
adjective
flesh-eat·ing
ˈflesh-ˌē-tiŋ
: 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
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