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CINERARIUM (cineraria)
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Irregular inflected form: cineraria
Dictionary entry overview: What does cinerarium mean?
• CINERARIUM (noun)
The noun CINERARIUM has 1 sense:
1. a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
Familiarity information: CINERARIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cinerarium; columbarium
Hypernyms ("cinerarium" is a kind of...):
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