Usually means: Exposure of corpses to vultures.
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  1. sky burial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sky burial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sky burial: Vocabulary.com
  4. sky burial: Wiktionary
  5. sky burial: Dictionary.com
  6. Sky Burial, Sky burial (disambiguation), Sky burial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. sky burial: Rhymezone
  8. sky burial: FreeDictionary.org
  9. sky burial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. sky burial: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.

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