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necrophage
1. To eat or subsist on dead bodies; such as, carrion, by organisms or certain animals.
2. Feeding on dead material; saprophytic.

The term carrion refers to the decaying flesh of a dead body; rotten, filthy, etc.

This entry is located in the following units: necro-, necr-, necron-, -necrosis, nekro- + (page 4) phago-, phag-, -phage, -phagi, -phagic, -phagically, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagic, -phagous, -phagy (page 11)