carrion
Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.
Other meanings
Corrupt or horrid matter.
A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.
A kind of
- body
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "caro" (flesh).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “carrion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; 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.