carcass
The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.
Other meanings
The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
The body of a dead human, a corpse.
A kind of
- body
Related words
- carcassless
- carcass weight
- carcasslike
Word history
From Anglo-Norman "carcois".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “carcass” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.