Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Necrophagous \Ne*croph"a*gous\, a. [Gr. ? eating corpses; ? a
   dead body + ? to eat: cf. F. n['e]crophage.] (Zo["o]l.)
   Of or pertaining to the {Necrophaga}; eating carrion. See
   {Necrophagan}.