carcass
carcass
Definition
car·cass (kär′kəs)
noun
- the dead body of an animal, often specif. of a slaughtered animal dressed as meat
- the human body, living or dead: scornful or humorous usage
- the worthless remains of something, esp. its outer shell
- the framework or base structure, as of a ship, tire, etc.
Etymology: ME carcais < OFr carcois < ? : sp. < Fr carcasse
carcass
Synonyms
carcass
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- cattle: He was worried about possible failures in the system for removing spinal cord tissue from the carcasses of cattle intended for human consumption.
Converse of object
- incinerate: The government is proposing to incinerate cattle carcasses at 22 sites, some of which are in populated areas.
- decompose: The decomposing carcass drifted to Greenodd Sands where it was photographed by Andy Harmer on 13 October 2001.
- rot: They should be used to help clear the backlog of rotting carcasses.
- bury: He suspected this was as a result of farmers burying carcasses.
- slaughter: Poultry meat toughness reaches its maximum level as recently slaughtered carcasses are washed, but the meat becomes more tender as carcasses are chilled.
- chill: Thus nowadays most slaughterhouses chill carcasses on a one day cycle.
Adjective modifier
- bovine: At the present time there is a requirement to split bovine carcasses of animals over 6 months of age in export slaughterhouses.
- infected: Also big cats who had been fed infected chicken carcasses in a Thai zoo were killed by H5N1.
Modifies a noun
- incinerator: Can I continue to use my animal carcass incinerator?
- disposal: Carcass disposal In the unusual event of an equine fatality at a Horse Trials, it is the hunt that removes the carcass.
- splitting: This was achieved by the use of a circular saw which was passed down the back of the carcass splitting the spinal column.
- meat: The carcass meat from cattle slaughtered under the Commission Regulation has to be dyed a different color from SBM.
- trait: The evaluation of these indexes showed that improvements in maternal traits are possible, along with more modest improvements in carcass quality traits.
Noun used with modifier
- pork: Pork carcasses normally are suspended by a gambrel or hooked bar placed under the tendons of the hind feet.
- beef: The growth patterns of certain muscles in the beef carcass also may show an abrupt change in growth rate at birth.
- lamb: To avoid cold shortening, meat must not reach 10 o C within 10 hours post mortem in lamb carcasses.
- deer: A high number of deer carcasses were found by the roadside on a busy stretch of road in a short space of time.
- chicken: Do not keep a cooked chicken carcass warm for a long period of time.
- dolphin: The French newspapers showed the dolphin carcasses piled up high on the beach.
carcass Quotes
Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.
Hiswhole carcassseemedtobemade of iron.There was no give in himöno bounce, no softness. He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths made of granite.
Browse dictionary entries near carcass
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