dakhmas

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A form of dakhma — Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of dakhma
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