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# carrion

«carrion» in Mova's school dictionary: **the dead and rotting flesh of animals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (carrion, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Carrion is the dead and rotting flesh of animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#m1)

2) (adjective use) Carrion animals, such as a carrion crow, eat dead animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons carrion is food for scavengers such as vultures, crows, hyenas, Tasmanian devils and burying beetles; they help clean up nature and recycle nutrients. Some flowers (carrion flowers) smell like carrion to attract flies. In stories it creates a grim, gloomy mood. Phrases: carrion crow, carrion flower, feed on carrion.

### examples

- Vultures circled over the carrion in the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x1)
- Carrion crows eat dead animals by the roadside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x2)
- Hyenas feed on carrion as well as hunting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x3)
- The giant flower smelled like carrion and attracted flies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x4)
- Burying beetles bury carrion to feed their young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x5)
- Tasmanian devils clean up carrion in the bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x6)
- The battlefield was full of carrion birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x7)
- Greedy for carrion, and sure that this must be a fresh corpse, the bird swooped down upon the boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: «some carrion». Pronounced KARR-ee-un. Animals that eat carrion are called scavengers. Do not confuse with «carry on».

### In the corpora

- [and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.272/)
- [and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.418/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «carrion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carrion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.