/sahr kof"euh geuhs/ , n. , pl. sarcophagi /-juy'/ , sarcophaguses .
1. a stone coffin, esp. one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
2. Gk. Antiq. a kind of stone thought to consume the flesh of corpses, used for coffins.
[ 1595-1605; sarkophágos, n. use of the adj.; see SARCOPHAGOUS ]