carcass

Etymology
Dated from the late 13th Century ; from, possibly related to 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The body of a dead animal.
 * 2)  The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
 * 3) * 1961, D. M. Doty, John C. Pierce, Beef Muscle Characteristics as Related to Carcass Grade, Carcass Weight, and Degree of Aging, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 1231, page 33,
 * Lean flavor scores for this muscle were lower than those for ribeye, especially in Prime grade carcasses.
 * 1) The body of a dead human, a corpse.
 * 2) The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
 * 3)  An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
 * 1) The body of a dead human, a corpse.
 * 2) The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
 * 3)  An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
 * 1) The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
 * 2)  An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
 * 1) The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
 * 2)  An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
 * 1)  An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.

Usage notes

 * The form is closer to Middle English spellings (carcays or carkeis).
 * Carcase may be more common in varieties of British English than it is in US English. For instance, in Australia, some newspapers use, while others use carcass. The Australian Dept of Agriculture uses carcase for the sense body of slaughtered animal.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:corpse

Translations

 * Arabic: فَطِيسَة
 * Assamese: শ, মৰা শ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: carcassa
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, calabre, murrialla, arcabouzo
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, , גוויה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: ablach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: өлексе
 * Korean: 사체(死體)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: мрша, леш
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: daaztsánígíí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kadaver, ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: لاش, مردار
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, corp mort, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: ра̄дт
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лѐшина, тру́пло
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: па́даль, па́дло, мертвечи́на, мертве́ччина
 * Uyghur: تاپ
 * Volapük: nimafun


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: skelet
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, szövetváz, , épületváz, ácsozat, kocsiváz
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kirimba


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: karkassi
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Spanish: