Carrion: Definition and part of speech

Carrion

  1. a. Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
  2. n. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
  3. n. A contemptible or worthless person; — a term of reproach.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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