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    sarcophagus

    sarcophagus - Dictionary definition and meaning for word sarcophagus

    Definition
    (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sarcophagus

sarco+phagus..sarco...comes from latin sarx(means flesh)+phagus(means to eat..)......some thing that eat flesh ........there was limestone which use to decompose the flesh of corpses placed in it..

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