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carrion
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carrion \Car"ri*on\, a. Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. A prey for carrion kites. --Shak. Carrion beetle (Zo["o]l.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From a distance, their posture on a ridge is that of a crow on carrion . ▪ Huge carrion birds gorged on the flesh. ▪ Humans don't necessarily get sick from eating carrion . ▪ Most of its prey are ducks and seabirds, fish and ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carrion is a fictional character , a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character is usually depicted as an enemy of Spider-Man . He first appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man #25. Carrion emerged as part of ...
Usage examples of carrion.
The outriding amphicyons galumphed stoically on either side, sometimes closing in, so that she saw their evil yellow eyes or smelled the carrion reek of their bodies.
But as soon as the bigtooth moved, two other wolves darted in and tore at the carrion.
As befitted a paxman, Orain kept close to Dom Carlo, but as they were spreading their blankets, and Romilly checking the birds and feeding them the last of the carrion - the men grumbled and snarled about the smell, but no one would gainsay Dom Carlo.
The chervines, disliking the carrion smell that clung to the birds, were stamping restlessly and moving around with little, troubled snorts and pawings.
Between the carrion scene and some salmonella tacos served up by the Nogales-based caterer, as well as repeated propositions by an Arab coproducer with halitosis that made her eyes water, Molly was sick for three days.
In my note to Carthoris I had given explicit directions for locating the Carrion Caves, impressing upon him the necessity for making entrance to the country beyond through this avenue, and not to attempt under any circumstances to cross the ice-barrier with a fleet.
She was coated in brown, downy feathers, a useful camouflage in the forest fringes where her kind had evolved as hunters of carrion and eggs.
It was already carrion and, as such, would draw not only his watch birds but also any gobbes within sniffing distance.
Yes, hawks feed on fresh-caught food, they must be tamed by starvation into feeding on carrion.
Casting carrion into the rivers is forbidden, and muckheaps are most strictly regulated here in Manchester.
Emperor Mei Saka is dead, eaten by carrion apes and his bones forgotten.
You think of your readers, those carrion feeders, and all your typesetters, those wretched abettors, and saber-whetters.
A legate entered every dwelling in the city to make sure no precious thing remained, while Cassius himself led three of the legions into the countryside and stripped it barer than carrion birds a carcass.
The eyes of the corpse were both gone, the lips and tongue and most of the flesh of the face shredded away from while bone by the sharp beaks of the carrion birds.
He seems to subsist almost wholly on the carcases of oxen, mules and horses that have dropped out of emigrant trains and died, and upon windfalls of carrion, and occasional legacies of offal bequeathed to him by white men who have been opulent enough to have something better to butcher than condemned army bacon.