Difference between flesh and necrophagia

flesh

Definitions

verb

  1. remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

noun

  1. a soft moist part of a fruit
  2. alternative names for the body of a human being
  3. the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

Examples

But that means there will be a lot of pumpkin flesh left over - and it shouldn't go to waste.

By the same token, if you pick up a strange rash, you will want to see a doctor in case it really is flesh-eating bacteria.

_Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints.

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necrophagia

Definitions

noun

  1. feeding on corpses or carrion

Examples

At that time I was not in retaliatory mood, so I did not point out that every person who consumes meat in one form or another actually consumes dead bodies of animals (can be called some kind of necrophagia) and also consumes the urine and the dung of that animal

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