Tuesday, 20 August 2013

WOW 5 - carrion

carrion

dead and decaying flesh of an animal
flesh unfit for food

Latin orgin - 'caro' meaning meat

Words of similar origin - carnivore

Vultures live chiefly on carrion. 

In Daniel Defoes's Robinson Crusoe, when the title character kills an unknown bird for food, he finds "it's flesh was carrion and fit for nothing."






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