sky burial

English

Noun

sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)

  1. A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.
    Synonym: wind burial
    Hypernym: excarnation

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