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An organism that consumes dead animal tissue or remains.
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- a carrion-feeding necrophage
- necrophage activity
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The report identified the animal as a necrophage.
The investigator studied necrophage activity around the remains.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular necrophage; plural necrophages. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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