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▸ noun: (Zoroastrianism) A low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary.
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▸ noun: (Zoroastrianism) A low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary.
Similar:
tomb,
bonehouse,
ossuary,
charnel house,
monument,
altar,
columbarium,
serdab,
sepulchre,
lantern of the dead,
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