sarcophagus
/sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/ sustantivo C2En español: sarcófago
- A stonen coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
- The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
- A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
- A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
Plural sarcophagi
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