The Collaborative International Dictionary
Necrophagous \Ne*croph"a*gous\, a. [Gr. ? eating corpses; nekro`s a dead body + ? to eat: cf. F. n['e]crophage.] (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.
Wiktionary
a. That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
Usage examples of "necrophagous".
I heard it, and knew no more--heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors--heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon.
I heard it, and knew no more--heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors-- heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon.