cadaveric

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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective cadaveric has 1 sense

cadaveric(a = adj.pert) cadaverous - of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"

Derived form noun cadaver₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cadaveric, a.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]

Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomaine.