lava
IPA: ɫˈɑvʌ
noun
- The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
- (informal, proscribed) Magma.
- A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.
- (Hinduism) One of the twin children of the Lord Rāma and his wife Sita in the Ramayana.
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Examples of "lava" in Sentences
- A lava spatters at the very top.
- Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds.
- The exposed lava rock of the core is loose and friable.
- The lava rapidly cools and solidifies as the bubbles grow.
- Roughly ninety percent of the lava in the monument is basaltic.
- The fissure eruptions resulted in lava flowing from the fissure.
- The volcanic eruption spewed lava hundreds of metres into the air.
- The sea pressurizes the runny lava, preventing explosive eruptions.
- But the lava is flowing out of the mountain in direction of the city.
- In the carbonatite lava it is associated with the potassium bearing gregoryite.
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