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US
/ˈkɑɹkəs/
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[ UK /kˈɑːkəs/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːkəs/ ]
NOUN
- the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
How To Use carcass In A Sentence
- A related species, the burrowing bettong, will scavenge sheep carcasses.
- The hyena exploits carcasses more fully than either cat because of its bone-cracking abilities.
- The loosely articulated head detaches upon removal of the carcass from the vessel.
- Carcass revenue increased for heavier carcasses and steers had a higher value relative to heifers.
- A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
- Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
- After they had died, any part of their carcasses would register on a photographic plate and tissue from the apices of their lungs and from the bronchia glowed with a light of its own. The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein
- Horsemen compete for a goat carcass during a game of Buzkashi to celebrate Nowruz in Mazar-i Sharif in northern Afghanistan on March 21.
- Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings. Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.
- I'd just spent fifteen minutes stripping all the meat left over on the chicken carcass I'd roasted for our dinner yesterday in preparation for a top-crust chicken and mushroom pie for today and my hands were dripping with grease and gunge.