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Carrion vs Innards - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between carrion and innards

is that carrion is dead flesh; carcasses while innards is plural of lang=en.

carrion

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Dead flesh; carcasses.
    • Vultures feed on carrion .
  • * Spenser
    • They did eat the dead carrions .
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
    • Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
  • (obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Old feeble carrions .

    Related terms

    * carrion beetle * carrion crow

    innards

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • The internal organs]] of a human or animal; especially viscera, [[intestine, intestines.
  • The inner workings of something; the insides or guts.
    • He took the cover off his computer and looked at the innards .

    Usage notes

    * This word is most frequently used in the plural/collective sense, as above. English pluralia tantum