Plural of carcass

regular plural

The plural of carcass is carcasses.

Forms of carcass

Despite all of the groups' experiences with leopards and carcasses in trees, neither the vervets nor the baboons gave alarm calls at the sight of the carcass alone.1992, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, page 284
Instead, the majority of studies involve freezing the carcasses until time permits the analysis.2005, Maria S. Johnson, Tim R. Nagy, “Chapter 10: Animal Body Composition Methods”, in Steven B. Heymsfield, Timothy G. Lohman, ZiMian...
Rendering is done by boiling the animal carcasses to separate the fat from the meat.2005, Carmen Ferreiro, Mad Cow Disease, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry tallow
Histerids are scavengers and predators in decomposing organic material such as animal carcasses.2004, David P. Rees, Insects of Stored Products, CSIRO Publishing, page 72. From the entry histerid
Across the Transhimalaya, wherever villagers discard carcasses and military camps dispose of their excess food, dog numbers are on the increase.2021 May 29, Janaki Lenin, “Tales from the Transhimalaya”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 29 May 2021. From the entry Transhimalaya

noun The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.
noun The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
noun The body of a dead human, a corpse.

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