Definition of "anthropophagi" [an•thro•poph•a•gi]

• Plural form of anthropophagus. (noun)

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• "He stared at it in amaze, his brain a racing wild-fire of hypotheses to account for this far-journeyer who had adventured the night of space, threaded the stars, and now rose before him and above him, exhumed by patient anthropophagi, pitted and lacquered by its fiery bath in two atmospheres."
• "And through all this he drifted, ever pursued by the flitting shadows of the anthropophagi, themselves ghosts of evil that dared not face him in battle but that knew that, soon or late, they would feed on him."
• "And he found head-hunting, tree-dwelling anthropophagi instead."