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- Carrion - n. - The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
- Carrion - n. - A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.
- Carrion - a. - Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
- Bran - n. - The European carrion crow.
- Gorcrow - n. - The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow.
- Caracara - n. - A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.
- Doupe - n. - The carrion crow.
- Lammergeier - n. - A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.
- Stinker - n. - Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
- Chimango - - A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.
- Saprophagan - n. - One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
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- H5038 נְבֵלָה - 5038 נְבֵלָה - נְבֵלָה - - nᵉbêlâh - neb-ay-law' - from נָבֵל; a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol; (dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G4430 πτῶμα - 4430 πτῶμα - ΠΤῶΜΑ - - ptōma - pto'-mah - from the alternate of πίπτω; a ruin, i.e. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion):--dead body, carcase, corpse. - Noun Neuter - greek