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Adjective: flesh-eating  'flesh'ee-ting
  1. (of animals) carnivorous
    "The flesh-eating predator stalked its prey";
    - meat-eating, zoophagous, creophagous [rare]
     
  2. (medicine) causing decay of flesh or tissue
    "flesh-eating bacteria can cause serious infections"

See also: carnivorous