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carrion Definition

car·rion (kar′ē ən)

noun

  1. the decaying flesh of a dead body, esp. when regarded as food for scavenging animals
  2. anything very disgusting or repulsive

Etymology: ME carioun < Anglo-Fr carogne < VL *caronia, carcass < L caro: see harvest

adjective

  1. of or like carrion
  2. feeding on carrion

carrion Synonyms

carrion

n.

decaying flesh, remains, corpse; see body 2, decay 2.

carrion Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • eat: Eagles will usually hunt and kill live animals, but will often eat carrion such as dead hares and sheep.
  • leave: They grow very rapidly and will be full size within a about a week, and then they will normally leave the carrion.
  • include: It has a habit of egg stealing - tho any animal food - including carrion - is taken.
  • scavenge: It may well be that T.rex was an opportunist flesh eater, combining scavenging carrion with active predation.
  • tackle: In the wild, tortoises are opportunistic feeders and they will on occasion tackle carrion and dung.
  • become: They die if they fail to eat the next turn and become carrion.

Modifies a noun

  • crow: Soon a carrion crow which has been doing its rounds over the upland fields spots the spill.
  • eater: The Old English ' The Battle of Maldon ' refers to the Earn or Sea Eagle as a carrion eater in 10th century Essex.
  • bird: Probably a bit of a road kill that some carrion bird had carried into someone's garden.
  • beetle: Heavy infestations are found especially on dung beetles, carrion beetles and on queen bumblebees.
  • feeder: The arthropods that are most important in forensic entomology are the carrion feeders, those that eat dead bodies.
carrion Quotes

   Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistöslack they may beöthese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony