necrophagous.

Feeding on corpses or decaying animal remains.

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Words that belong together

• necrophagous insects
• necrophagous species

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Necrophagous insects gathered beneath the remains.

The creature’s necrophagous habits explained the empty graves.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.