What is the meaning of Sarcophagus?

A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.

  1. The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
  2. A type of wine cooler (a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).

The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

A type of wine cooler (a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).

A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).

a grave, sepulchre

flesh-devouring, carnivorous

a kind of limestone used for coffins

Source: wiktionary.org