单词 | sarcophagus |
释义 | sarcophagus /sahr kof"euh geuhs/, n. , pl. sarcophagi /-juy'/, sarcophaguses. 1. a stone coffin, esp. one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument. 2. Gk. Antiq. a kind of stone thought to consume the flesh of corpses, used for coffins. [1595-1605; < L < Gk sarkophágos, n. use of the adj.; see SARCOPHAGOUS] |
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