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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A traditional Tibetan funeral practice in which the body of a dead person is exposed to the open air to be eaten by vultures.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures
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