资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Necrophagan \Ne*croph"a*gan\, a. [See {Necrophagous}.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   Eating carrion. -- n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of a tribe
   ({Necrophaga}) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on
   carrion; a burying beetle.