Carcass

Quick meaning: Carcass is a noun meaning The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.

Meaning

The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.

More Meanings

1. (meat trade) The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
2. The body of a dead human, a corpse.
3. (now slang) The body of a live person or animal.
4. The framework of a structure, such as a cabinet, especially one not normally seen.
5. (nautical) An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.

Example Sentences

Instead, the majority of studies involve freezing the carcasses until time permits the analysis.

And the carkeiſes of this people ſhall be meate for the fowles of the heauen, and for the beaſts of the earth, and none ſhall fray them away.

Despite all of the groups' experiences with leopards and carcasses in trees, neither the vervets nor the baboons gave alarm calls at the sight of the carcass alone.

And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: / And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, / Share equally the gold that bought their liues, / And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]

Word Forms

• carcasses
• carcase

Synonyms for carcass

Depending on context, synonyms include corpse, carcase.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include carcase, corpse, cadaver, slaughterhouse, abattoir, scrap.

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