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Noun canopic jar has 1 sense
  1. canopic jar, canopic vase - a jar used in ancient egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body
    --1 is a kind of jar

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Canopic Jar

A canopic jar is a type of jar used by the ancient Egyptians to store and preserve the organs of the deceased during the embalming process.

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Noun:

  1. The archaeologists discovered several canopic jars inside the tomb.
  2. Each canopic jar held a different organ of the mummified pharaoh.

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