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sarcophagus

Sarcophagus is a 11 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter S for which we found 3 definitions.

Definition
(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.
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