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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the dead body of a human being;
- Example: "the cadaver was intended for dissection"
- Example: "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"
- Example: "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"
- Example: "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
[syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cadaver \Ca*da"ver\ (k[.a]*d[a^]"v[~e]r; k[.a]*d[=a]"v[~e]r), n.
   [L., fr cadere to fall.]
   A dead human body; a corpse.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cadaver
    n 1: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended
         for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the
         discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he
         threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the
         turf that wraps their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse,
         stiff, clay, remains]