carrion

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Noun

carrion (uncountable)

1. Dead flesh; carcasses.

   Vultures feed on carrion.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119

     Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.

Translations

dead flesh; carcasses

Armenian: լեշ (hy) (leš), գեշ (hy) (geš) Bulgarian: мърша (bg) f., леш (bg) m. Czech: mršina (cs) f. Finnish: haaska (fi), raato (fi) French: charogne (fr) f. German: Aas (de) n., Kadaver (de) m. Greek: θνησιμαίο (el) n., κουφάρι (el) n., ψοφίμι (el) n. Italian: carogna (it) f. Japanese: 骸 (ja) (mukuro)

Latvian: maita (lv) f. Polish: padlina (pl) f. Portuguese: carniça (pt) f. Russian: падаль (ru) (pádal') f., мертвечина (ru) (m'ertv'ečína) f. Slovene: mrhovina (sl) f. Spanish: carroña (es) f. Turkish: leş (tr) Volapük: nimafun (vo)

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