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carrion
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)
- (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.
- (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
Derived terms
- carrion beetle
- carrion crow
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necrophagia
English
Etymology
necro- +? -phagia
Noun
necrophagia (uncountable)
- the consumption of dead flesh or carrion
- the practice of feeding on (eating) corpses
Synonyms
- necrophagic
- necrophagous
- necrophagy
Translations
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