Necrophagic

Origin

From - + necro + -.

Full definition of necrophagic

Adjective

1. Eating dead bodies.
• 1975, Angela Carter, ‘The Hidden Child’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 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.
2. (biology) That feeds on carrion.

Related terms

• necrophagia
• necrophagous