necrophagy.

The consumption of dead animal tissue, including feeding on corpses or carrion.

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Words that belong together

• necrophagy in scavengers
• evidence of necrophagy

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The investigator found evidence of necrophagy after the body had been left exposed.

Necrophagy sustained the scavengers long after the larger predators departed.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.