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."
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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