ROADKILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roadkill mean? 

• ROADKILL (noun)
  The noun ROADKILL has 1 sense:

1. the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle

  Familiarity information: ROADKILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROADKILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Context example:

vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill

Hypernyms ("roadkill" is a kind of...):

body; dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)

 Context examples 

Causes of cheetah decline have been mostly habitat loss, killings of cheetahs by humans, human hunting of cheetah's resources such as antelope, illegal fur trade, illegal cub trafficking, and roadkill.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)