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单词 carrion
释义 car·ri·on
\ˈkarēən also -er-\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English carion, caroine, from Anglo-French caroine, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin caronia, irregular from Latin carn-, caro flesh — more at carnal
1. obsolete : a dead body : carcass, corpse
 < croaking like so many ravens about a carrion — Charles Johnstone >
2. : the dead and putrefying flesh of an animal : flesh that is unfit for food
 < we killed a tiger and a wolf; but God be thanked, we were not so reduced as to eat carrion — Daniel Defoe >
3.
 a. : a scavenging animal
  < enemy dead were left to rot or be eaten by carrion >
 b. : a worthless or noxious animal : vermin
4. : something that is corrupt, vile, or rotten
 < Roman fashionable society hated Caesar, and any carrion was welcome to them which would taint his reputation — J.A.Froude >
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