different between carrion vs entrails

English

Etymology

Old French caroigne (see modern French charogne), from Latin caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ.?i.?n/

Noun

carrion (usually uncountable, plural carrions)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.

   • They did eat the dead carrions.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119

     Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.

2. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.

Derived terms

• carrion beetle
• carrion crow

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intr?lia, from Latin inter?nea, from inter?neus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ent?e?lz/

Noun

entrails

1. (archaic) plural of entrail

entrails pl (plural only)

1. The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: bowels, innards, intestines, offal, viscera

2. (obsolete) The seat of the emotions. [14th–18th c.]

Translations

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Entrails”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 221, column 2.

Anagrams

• Latiners, art lines, larnites, latrines, ratlines, retinals, slantier, trainels, trenails