Definition of sarcophagus

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Sarcophagus (n.) A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

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Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia..
Sarcophaguses :: Sarcophaguses (pl. ) of Sarcophagu.
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