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What does cinerary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cinerary? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or containing ashes, especially those of a cremated person.
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Urn burial is an ancient Graeco-Roman practice, and to this day, the ashes of the dead are often preserved in cinerary urns.
We offer a range of cinerary urns to hold the ashes of a dear one, all made from Magdalen Islands' sand.
If the ashes are dispersed after cremation, as in India, they are collected in a cinerary urn.
The cinerary urns found in Berkshire undoubtedly contain the ashes of the Anglians who came south under Penda in the 7th century.
The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics.
Is a corridor filled with cinerary urns, chiefly from Volterra, bearing recumbent figures, ludicrously stunted.

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