Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carnivorous marsupial; a member of the Sarcophaga.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any
animal that eatsflesh , especially anycarnivorous marsupial . - noun zoology Any
fly of thegenus Sarcophaga .
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Examples
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People were contracting anthrax, the efficacy of our smallpox vaccine was called into question, and the rhetoric started to flow from bin Laden and his cohorts: suddenly my shoebox apartment in the East Village, where I slept about six inches from the ceiling, stopped seeming "cute" and became almost sarcophagan.
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People were contracting anthrax, the efficacy of our smallpox vaccine was called into question, and the rhetoric started to flow from bin Laden and his cohorts: suddenly my shoebox apartment in the East Village, where I slept about six inches from the ceiling, stopped seeming "cute" and became almost sarcophagan.
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