carrion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the decaying flesh of dead animals

   Vultures circled above the carrion left on the desert plain.

Simplified etymology

Carrion, recorded in Middle English, ultimately derives from the Latin stem caro, carn-, meaning “flesh.” It belongs to the same flesh-related word family as carnival, carnage, carnivorous, and incarnation.

From Anglo-Norman caroine, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia ('carcass'), from Latin carō ('flesh, meat').

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