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Cadaver

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A dead body, especially one intended for dissection.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A dead human body; a corpse.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A dead body; a corpse: as, “a mere cadaver,” Boyle; especially, a body prepared or used for dissection.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the dead body of a human being

Word Usage

"I love the piece, the Trio, the Flute Sonata, Dialogues des Carmelites, and Fiancailles pour rire (how can you resist a text like "my cadaver is soft as a glove"?) but I think maybe you're reading history back into the Sextet, rather than finding it there."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

body dead body

Hyponym

cremains

Form

cadaverous cadaverine cadaveric

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

corpse body