Associations to the word «Cadaver»

Wiktionary

CADAVER, noun. A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
CADAVER DOG, noun. A dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate remains, usually human.

Dictionary definition

CADAVER, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats