Carrion
WordNet
noun
(1) The dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
WiktionaryText
Noun
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.