cadaver
noun/kəˈdævə(r)/
/kəˈdævər/
(specialist)- a dead human body synonym corpseTopics Life stagesc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryCadaver is used before these nouns:
- dog
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin, from cadere ‘to fall’.Definitions on the go
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