noun. Dead and decaying flesh.

adjective. Of or similar to dead and decaying flesh.

adjective. Feeding on such flesh.

noun. A dead body; a corpse; a carcass; flesh.

noun. undefined

noun. A mere carcass: used of a living person, as a term of contempt.

noun. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of animals; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.

Dead and putrefying, as a carcass.

noun. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.

noun. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.

adjective. Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.

adjective. any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ.

adjective. a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Caracara.

adjective. the common European crow (Corvus corone) which feeds on carrion, insects, fruits, and seeds.

noun. Dead flesh; carcasses.

noun. the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food

"I soak up a few fingers of a bottle of mescal and sweat a lot at a table in the rear of the cantina with my back to the wall, and I watch the shadows of the zopilotes heaving past, the mangy black vultures that seem to be in the city's official employ to remove carrion from the streets, and I think mostly about what crybabies Wilson and Bryan, his paunchy windbag of a Secretary of State, have turned out to be."

offal  

carrion beetle  carrion crow  

body  dead body  

Bavarian  Bulgarian  Darien  Hungarian  Kasparian  

acrid  aquatic  brimstone  carnivorous  cloying  

ashes  bilge  bilgewater  body  bones