necrophagic
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- Eating dead bodies.
- 1975, Angela Carter, “The Hidden Child”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 546:
- Ravages of ‘demon claws and teeth’; corpses ‘mangled, chewed and clawed’. The necrophagic passion is very strong in Lovecraft.
- 2012, Gabriele Schwab, Imaginary Ethnographies:
- When they are eating the remainders of their dead fathers, the girls perform all the elements of a necrophagic ritual.
- (biology) That feeds on carrion.
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