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Plural of cadaver

regular plural

The plural of cadaver is cadavers or cadavera.

Forms of cadaver

Singularcadaver /kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/
Pluralcadavers
cadavera
Countablecountable

Cadavers and cadavera in a sentence

  • “Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside.2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 98
  • Based on palpatory findings, tissue samples were taken from myogelotic areas of 11 unfixed human cadavers (6 female, 5 male).1999 July 1, A. Windisch, A. Reitinger, H. Traxler, H. Radner, C. Neumayer, W. Feigl, W. Firbas, “Morphology and Histochemistry of…. From the entry pathologically
  • So many faces Clive had never seen by daylight, and looking terrible, like cadavers jerked upright to welcome the newly dead.1998, Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, New York: Anchor, published 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10. From the entry din
  • When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.2012, Brian Norman, Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature, JHU Press, →ISBN. From the entry corpsehood
  • The morbid anatomy of over a hundred birds dead of intestinal coccidiosis and autopsied by us can be summarized as follows: The cadavera are very much emaciated and anemic.1913, American Veterinary Review, page 498. From the entry cadavera

Meaning of cadaver

  1. noun A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.

Full definition of cadaver

Questions about the plural of cadaver

What is the plural of cadaver?
The plural of cadaver is cadavers or cadavera.
Which is correct, cadavers or cadavera?
Both are used. cadavers is the more common of the two in English writing.
Is cadaver countable?
Cadaver is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cadaver (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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