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CINERARIUM
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Irregular inflected form: cineraria
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
Synonyms:
cinerarium; columbarium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cinerarium" is a kind of...):
niche; recess (an enclosure that is set back or indented)