Carrion

Definition: Carrion

Carrion

Noun

1. Dead and rotting flesh; unfit for human food.

2. The dead and rotting body of an animal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "carrion" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Corpse

Noun: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Crosswords: Carrion

As far as I'm concerned, after 100 years, carrion becomes memorabilia (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Black Carrion (1984)

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Books

• Among the carrion crows (reference)

• Carrion (reference)

• Carrion Comfort (reference)

• Carrion House : world of gifts (reference)

• Proverbios Morales Sanotb De Carrion (Spanish Series No. 21) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hermanos Carrion, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures taking a break from searching for carrion on a Patuxent River fence. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is easily confused with the alligator snapping turtle. Considered ill-tempered, they feed on invertebrates, fish, reptiles, carrion, etc. and a surprising amount of vegetation. These turtles trapped in the fresh and brackish waters of bay tributaries and sold to restaurants for use in soups and stews. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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It is human, it is divine, carrion.

' and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial

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Human Rights

Nicaragua

Following a series of lower court decisions in 2000 on September 7, the CSJ acquitted Carrion. (references)

Nicaragua

The family of Leal took the case to the police and judicial authorities, but in spite of an arrest warrant, the police never apprehended Alejandro Carrion. (references)

Nicaragua

For example, in May 2000, Alejandro Carrion McDonough, the brother of Army Commander General Javier Carrion McDonough, allegedly killed farmer Pablo Absalon Leal Aguirre in Masaya over a water dispute. (references)

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Expressions using "carrion": carrion beetle ♦ Carrion buzzard ♦ carrion buzzards ♦ carrion crow ♦ carrion flower ♦ carrion fly ♦ carrion fungus. Additional references.

Beginning with "carrion": carrion-and, carrion-eater, carrion-eaters, carrion-eating, carrion-scented.

Afrikaans

aas (ace, attraction). (various references)

Albanian

cofëtinë (carcase, carcass, hag, scrag), pleh (crap, dressing, fertilizer, muck, ordure), kalbësirë (putridity, rottenness), kërmë (carcase, carcass, heel), i ngordhur (dilatory, poky), i kalbur (carious, corrupt, decayed, putrid, rotten, rotting, saprogenic, saprogenous, tainted, unsound), i cofët. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لحمة غير صالح للأكل, ‏جيفة (cadaver, corpse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развалено месо, гниещ (putrescent), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), отпадъци (dregs, dross, garbage, husks, junk, leavings, litter, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs), мърша (dog's meat, offal), загнил (carious, stagnant, unsound), леш (carcass). (various references)

Czech

mršina (carcass). (various references)

Danish

Carrión's sygdom (Bartonella fever, Carrion disease, Oroya fever), Oroya feber (Bartonella fever, Carrion disease, Oroya fever), forgiftet lokkemad (impregnated trap, poisoned bait, poisoned carrion). (various references)

Dutch

aas (ace, bait). (various references)

Esperanto

kadavraĵo. (various references)

Farsi 

مردار, لاشه (Bier, Body, Cadaver, Carcase, Corpse), گوشت گندیده . (various references)

Finnish

haaskat. (various references)

French

corneille noire (carrion crow), corneille mantelée, charogne. (various references)

Frisian

ies (bait). (various references)

German

Aas (bugger, clever person). (various references)

Greek 

ψοφίμι (carcass). (various references)

Hebrew 

פ�'ר (cadaver, carcass, corpse). (various references)

Hungarian

dög (carcase, carcass). (various references)

Indonesian

sampah (garbage, litter, rubbish, trash), bangkai (carcass, corpse, fuselage). (various references)

Italian

cornacchia nera (hooded crow), cornacchia grigia (hooded crow), carogna (stinker, you skunk). (various references)

Manx

convayrt (carcase of animal, corpse). (various references)

Norwegian

åtsel. (various references)

Pig Latin

arrioncay.(various references)

Portuguese

coisa imunda (dog's-meat), carniça, carne putrefata (dog's-meat, offal), vil (base, caitiff, despicable, dirty, ignoble, lily-livered, lousy, low-down, low-minded, mean, nasty, nefarious, paltry, picayune, rascally, reptile, rotten, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, slavish, sneaking, sordid, ugly, vile, villainous), repugnante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, brackish, disgusting, forbidding, grievous, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, nauseous, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury), podridão (putridity, rottenness), imundície (dirt, dirtiness, feculence, filth, foulness, muck, ordure, sludge, slush, soil, squalor), asqueroso (disgusting, loathful, loathsome, revolting). (various references)

Romanian

carne stricatã, stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), stârv (carcase, offal), putred (putrid, rotten), porcãrie (bawdry, filth, infamy, piggery, piggishness, pigwash, swinishness), hoit (carcas), gunoi (dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste). (various references)

Russian 

гниющий (putrescent), морковь морковный (carrot), падаль (dog's meat, offal). (various references)

Scottish

blianach (lean carcase, lean flesh : eòin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strvinski, strvina, lešina (carcass). (various references)

Spanish

carroña. (various references)

Swedish

kadaver (cadaver, carcase, carcass, corpse), as (as, cadaver, carcase, carcass, corpse, offal), åtel (carcase, carcass). (various references)

Turkish

leş gibi şey, leş (carcass, putrefaction), kokmuş et. (various references)

Ukrainian

що розклада�"ться, гнилий (bad, carious, putrescent, rotten), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), непридатне для їжи м'ясо, мертвечина, мерзота (abomination, filth), паскуда (cattle), падло (offal). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xác chết đã thối cái thối tha, vật nhơ bẩn, vật kinh tởm, thối tha (stinking), kinh tởm (abominable, abominate, sickening). (various references)

Welsh

ysglyfaeth (booty, filth, prey, spoil), burgyn (carcass). (various references)

caro, corv grisch, Corvus corone, RM:corv nair. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "carrion": carrions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Carrion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barrion, caprian, carcon, Cardion, careion, careon, carian, carien, carino, Cario, carion, Caroni, Carraro, carreau, Carreno, carrian, Carridon, carrilon, carroin, carron, Carroun, carryion, cartrio, caryo, Catreeona, Cefrino, Cerrejon, Cirino, cogrino, corcrain, Corizon, correan, Corridon, Corridoni, corrion, crion, Currawong, garrion, Karron, karroo, Parrino, warrion. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rancor.

-2 letters: acorn, cairn, coria, narco, naric, noria, orcin, racon.

-3 letters: airn, arco, cain, carn, carr, ciao, cion, coin, coir, coni, corn, icon, inro, iron, naoi, narc, noir, nori, orca, orra, rain, rani, roan, roar.

-4 letters: ain, air, ani, arc, can, car, con, cor, ion, nor, oar, oca, ora, orc, ran, ria, rin, roc.

+1 letter: carrions, carrotin.

+2 letters: cairngorm, carnivora, carnivore, carroming, carrotins, coriander, corrading, corrasion.

+3 letters: cairngorms, carabinero, carnivores, contrarian, contraries, contrarily, cordwainer, corianders, coronaries, corralling, corrasions, corrigenda, costarring, fornicator, franchisor, noncarrier, recreation, refraction, retraction, trinocular.

+4 letters: acrocentric, amenorrheic, areocentric, bronchiolar, carabineros, carburetion, carnivorous, cerebration, chairperson, chiromancer, chiropteran, chlorinator, chrysarobin, conspirator, contrarians, contrariety, contrarious, coordinator, cordilleran, cordwainers, cordwainery, corporation, correlating, correlation, corrugating, corrugation, counterraid, craniometry, crowbarring, doctrinaire, fornicators, franchisors, granophyric, incinerator, incorporate, incorporeal, intraocular, mercuration, noncarriers, noncircular, overarching, preromantic, procreating, procreation, procuration, protracting, protraction, radiocarbon, rarefaction, reactionary, recordation, recreations, refractions, renographic, reproaching, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, rhetorician, rubrication.