carrion : Idioms & Phrases

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Carrion beetle

  • (Zoöl.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ.
Webster 1913

Carrion buzzard

  • (Zoöl.), a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Caracara.
Webster 1913

Carrion crow

  • noun American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
    black vulture; Coragyps atratus.
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  • the common European crow (Corvus corone) which feeds on carrion, insects, fruits, and seeds.
Webster 1913

carrion flower

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers
    stapelia; starfish flower.
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carrion fungus

  • noun any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
    stinkhorn.
    • the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet
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