'Carrion' definitions:
Definition of 'carrion'
From: WordNet
noun
The dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
Definition of 'Carrion'
From: GCIDE
- Carrion \Car"ri*on\, n. [OE. caroyne, OF. caroigne, F. charogne, LL. caronia, fr. L. caro flesh Cf. Crone, Crony.]
- 1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. [1913 Webster]
- They did eat the dead carrions. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. [Obs.] "Old feeble carrions." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Carrion'
From: GCIDE
- Carrion \Car"ri*on\, a. Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. [1913 Webster]
- A prey for carrion kites. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Carrion beetle (Zool.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and {burying beetle}. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphid[ae].
- Carrion buzzard (Zool.), a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Caracara.
- Carrion crow, the common European crow (Corvus corone) which feeds on carrion, insects, fruits, and seeds. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'carrion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ashes,
- bilge,
- bilgewater,
- body,
- bones,
- cadaver,
- carcass,
- caries,
- clay,
- corpse,
- corpus delicti,
- corruption,
- crowbait,
- dandruff,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- decay,
- decedent,
- decomposition,
- dishwater,
- ditchwater,
- dry bones,
- dry rot,
- dust,
- earth,
- embalmed corpse,
- excrement,
- filth,
- food for worms,
- foul matter,
- foulness,
- furfur,
- gangrene,
- garbage,
- late lamented,
- mess,
- mortal remains,
- mortification,
- muck,
- mucus,
- mummification,
- mummy,
- necrosis,
- obscenity,
- offal,
- offscourings,
- ordure,
- organic remains,
- pus,
- putrefaction,
- putrescence,
- putrid matter,
- putridity,
- putridness,
- rancidity,
- rancidness,
- rankness,
- refuse,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- riffraff,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- scum,
- scurf,
- scuz,
- sewage,
- sewerage,
- skeleton,
- slime,
- slop,
- slops,
- slough,
- smut,
- sphacelation,
- sphacelus,
- spoilage,
- stiff,
- swill,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- tooth decay