Necrophagic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Necrophagic is an adjective meaning Eating dead bodies.
Meaning
Eating dead bodies.
More Meanings
- (biology) That feeds on carrion.
Example Sentences
When they are eating the remainders of their dead fathers, the girls perform all the elements of a necrophagic ritual.
Ravages of ‘demon claws and teeth’; corpses ‘mangled, chewed and clawed’. The necrophagic passion is very strong in Lovecraft.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nectrophic, cannibalistic, metatrophic, haematophagic, symbiophagic, heterophagic.
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