Vultures eat only carrion. From LearnThat.org.
Stop from your croaking, old carrion-crow there. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
The fell one, the carrion-proud, far'd hath her back-fare. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
'The carrion-hunting hound!' cried Ralston; 'I read this, and I came straight here. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
They pushed on further till the evening, and passed other skeletons of moose and carribboo deer, picked clean by the carrion-birds. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
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