sky burial
English
Noun
sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)
- 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
Translations
funeral practice
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