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Noun: funeral pyre
  1. Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
    "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre";
    - pyre

Derived forms: funeral pyres

Type of: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile

Encyclopedia: Funeral pyre

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