carcasses
Remains of animals
Carcasses is the plural of carcass—the dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered for meat or found after death.
Butchers work with beef carcasses; vultures circle animal carcasses in the wild.
The word extends to anything lifeless or abandoned: Rusting carcasses of old cars lined the yard.
Applied to humans, it's either humorous or deliberately dehumanizing.
Large carrion-eating raptors
- hyenasCackling African carnivores
- jackalsScavenging canines of Africa
- crowsLarge black corvids
- ravensLarge black scavenging birds
marabou · condors · buzzards · coyotes · foxes · beetles · ants · crabs
Breakdown into simpler parts
- putrefactionBacterial breakdown of tissue
- rottingOrganic matter decomposing
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
- stenchPowerfully offensive odor
maggots · bacteria · carrion · cadaverine · scavengers · flies · putrescence · spoilage
Rigid internal support structure
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- cadaverBody for dissection
- corpseDeceased human body
- ribcageBony chest enclosure
skull · vertebrae · pelvis · fossils · mummified · desiccated · roadkill · beached
Animal tissue for food
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- butcherOne who sells cuts
- cleaverBroad-bladed cutting tool
- hangingExecution by noose
hooks · processing · skinning · quartering · dressing · offal · curing · charcuterie
Act of throwing away
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- landfillWaste burial ground
- incinerationBurning waste to ash
- burialPlacing deceased underground
composting · pits · mass graves · culling · disease · contamination · biohazard · sanitation
vultures
Large carrion-eating raptors
ravens · marabou · condors · buzzards · coyotes · foxes · beetles · ants · crabs · circling
decomposition
Breakdown into simpler parts
- putrefactionBacterial breakdown of tissue
- rottingOrganic matter decomposing
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
stench · maggots · bacteria · carrion · cadaverine · scavengers · flies · putrescence · spoilage · festering
bones
Rigid internal support structure
ribcage · skull · vertebrae · pelvis · fossils · mummified · desiccated · roadkill · beached · stranded
meat
Animal tissue for food
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- butcherOne who sells cuts
- cleaverBroad-bladed cutting tool
hanging · hooks · processing · skinning · quartering · dressing · offal · curing · charcuterie · abattoir
disposal
Act of throwing away
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- landfillWaste burial ground
- incinerationBurning waste to ash
burial · composting · pits · mass graves · culling · disease · contamination · biohazard · sanitation · dumping
- poultry byproductseggs, feathers, down, chicken fat, duck fat
- organic remainsbone, bones, carrion, corpse, corpses
- fish killsmass mortality, die-off, dead fish, winterkill, winter kill
- fishing wastefish guts, fish heads, fish scales, entrails, viscera
- salmonAtlantic salmon, sockeye, chinook, pink salmon, coho
carcassesliving creatures
Entities possessing biological processes
live animals · alive · living organisms · wildlife · fauna
- rotting carcassDecomposing dead animal body
- animal carcass
- whale carcassDead body of sea mammal
- fish carcassDead body of fish