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 eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.
  • noun zoology Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.

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Examples

  • 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.

    5/30/02 We're back up in 2002

  • 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.

    5/21/02 I think the time 2002

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