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carrion

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
carrion/ˈkariən/

▶noun the decaying flesh of dead animals.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. and Old North. Fr. caroine, caroigne, OFr. charoigne, based on L. caro ‘flesh’.

'carrion' also found in these Oxford entries:

caracara - carrion beetle - carrion crow - crone - crow - flesh fly - hooded crow - horseleech - kea - rafflesia - scavenge - vulture

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