Carrion
WordNet

noun


(1)   The dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
WiktionaryText

Noun


carrion
  1. Dead flesh; carcasses.
    Vultures feed on carrion.

Quotations

  • 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.
 
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