carogne

corpse; carrion

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Vultures feed on weathered carcass, no graphic organs.

noun

carrion

KAIR-ee-un/ˈkæriən/

Dead, decaying animal flesh eaten by scavengers.

Etymology

carrionAnglo-Frenchcorpse; carrion

Carogne meant a corpse or carrion. English first used the word for a dead body, then narrowed it to dead, putrefying animal flesh—the material scavengers feed on.

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