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.
- “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.