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Definition of volcano

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Volcano (n.) A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain..

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Volcanic :: Volcanic (a.) Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa..

Crater :: Crater (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up..

Volcanic :: Volcanic (a.) Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

Salse :: Salse (n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name..

Volcanically :: Volcanically (adv.) Like a volcano.

Vesuvian :: Vesuvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples..

Eructation :: Eructation (n.) A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc..

Slag :: Slag (v. t.) The scoria of a volcano.

Vulcanology :: Vulcanology (n.) The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc..

Obsidian :: Obsidian (n.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters..

Volcanist :: Volcanist (n.) One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

Clinker :: Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag..

Vulcanic :: Vulcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists..

Flammivomous :: Flammivomous (a.) Vomiting flames, as a volcano..

Vulcano :: Vulcano (n.) A volcano.

Volcanoes :: Volcanoes (pl. ) of Volcan.

Moya :: Moya (n.) Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.

Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano..

Cone :: Cone (n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form..

Volcanic :: Volcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat..