Tel: 203.259.0458

GLOSSARY

Apiary: A place where bees are kept, a collection of beehives.
 
Arboretum: A botanical collection composed of trees and shrubs.
 

Crypt: A space set aside for casketed human remains or an urn. Generally in a mausoleum.

 
Community Mausoleum: An above-ground public crypt memorializing multiple people. 
 
Disposition: Placing whole and/or cremated human remains in their final resting place.
 
Entombment: Process of placing a casket in a crypt.
 
Estate Lot: a Larger private family lot, to accommodate multiple burials with larger monuments and personalized landscaping.
 
Grave: A space in the ground for casketed human remains or an urn. Generally in a cemetery.
 
Interment: Final burial, inurnment, or entombment of human remains.
 
Inurnment: Placement of cremated remains.
 
Mausoleum: A building for the burial (entombment) of human remains.
 
Private Family Mausoleum: An above-ground granite building, built to house the remains of multiple family members.
 
Niche: A small space in a mausoleum created to hold an urn.
 
Urn: Container to hold cremated human remains. May be buried in the ground or placed in a mausoleum or columbarium.
 
Vault: Outer burial container made to enclose a casket.