Eating human flesh; practicing or relating to cannibalism.
From anthropophagus + -ous (adjective-forming suffix), creating an adjective directly from the Greek root.
This is the most 'scientific-sounding' way to say 'cannibalistic,' which is partly why it appears in older academic texts—adding '-ous' made it sound like a natural category that could be studied objectively.
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