lava

IPA: ɫˈɑvʌ

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.

Examples of "lava" in Sentences

“So I have to get to the bathroom without stepping on the floor, because it is covered in lava and alligators?”
Scientists are also baffled by the fact that this particular type of basaltic lava is only known to exist in Iceland.
Some fine Specimens of lava from a partially active Volcano in the province of [gap word illegible], in the extreme north of Japan.
They had been down to the Balesuna making an alligator trap, and, instead of trousers, were clad in lava-lavas that flapped gracefully about their stalwart limbs.
The volcano Paricutín (the youngest in America, and the only one whose birth was witnessed by a living human), surrounded almost entirely by lava, is a paradise for those who love hikes amid the sandy banks and lava fields left by the 1943 eruption.
I stood and watched the most brilliant display of aurora I had ever seen, shooting over the mountain tops in the east like lava from a volcano, writhing overhead to the opposite horizon, snaking into crowns and shooting towards the ground like harpoons of light.