Sarcophagus

[sɑː'kɒfəgəs] or [sɑr'kɑfəgəs]

解释:

(noun.) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions).

丹尼整理--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

(n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

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

手打:米米

同义词及近义词：

n. Stone coffin.

伊米莉亚整理

解释:

n. a kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins and so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses: any stone receptacle for a corpse: an 18th-century form of wine-cooler:—pl. Sarcoph′agī Sarcoph′aguses.

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