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adj. Feeding on carrion or corpses: necrophagous organisms.

adj. That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.

adj. Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See necrophagan.

Eating or feeding on carrion.

"The skin was almost entirely enclosing the skeleton, and inside were millions of the pupa-cases of flies and other insects, with thousands of two or three species of small necrophagous beetles."

necrophage    necrophagy   

necrophagan