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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK] eating corpses;

νεκρόσ

a dead body + [GREEK] to eat: cf. F.

nécrophage

(Zool.)

Of or pertaining to the

Necrophaga

; eating carrion. See

necrophagous ‎(comparative more necrophagous, superlative most necrophagous)

That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
The body had been consumed by necrophagous insects.

that eats dead or decaying flesh