1. A species of stone used in sepultures, and so called because it was alleged to consume bodies deposited in it within a few weeks; a stone coffin in which the ancients deposited dead bodies.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• sarcaphogus,
• sarcophogus,
• sarcohigus,
• sarcophigus,
• sarcophagous,
• carpophagus,
• saprophagus,
• sarcoobatus,
• sarochilus,
• sarcophagas,
• aarcophagus,
• zarcophagus,
• xarcophagus,
• sarcoophagus,
• sarcophagyus,
• sarophagus,
• sarcopagus,
• sercophagus,
• sarkophagus,
• areopoagus

• sarcophilus,
• sarcophaga,
• sarcobatus,
• sarcoptid,
• sarcoplasm,
• sarcoptidae,
• sarcoptes.

The adjective form of the word "sarcophagus" is "sarcophagal" or "sarcophagous".