SKY BURIAL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("sky burial" is a kind of...):

funeral; obsequy (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)

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