Usually means: Carrier of dead within insects.
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  1. necrophore: Wordnik
  2. necrophore: Wiktionary
  3. Necrophore, necrophore: Dictionary.com
  4. Necrophore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. necrophore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Necrophore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. necrophore: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Necrophore: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (necrophore)

noun:  Any of various beetles, especially of the genus Nicrophorus, that bury the carcasses of small vertebrates (such as birds and rodents) as a food source for their larvae

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