Definition of crater

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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..

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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..
Hypocraterimorphous :: Hypocraterimorphous (a.) Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac..
Eructation :: Eructation (n.) A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc..
Salver-shaped :: Salver-shaped (a.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous..
Desecrater :: Desecrater (n.) One who desecrates; a profaner.
Consecrater :: Consecrater (n.) Consecrator.
Crateriform :: Crateriform (a.) Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.
Quaquaversal :: Quaquaversal (a.) Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater..
Craterous :: Craterous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater..
Crater :: Crater (n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
Hypocrateriform :: Hypocrateriform (a.) hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped.
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..
Crater :: Crater (n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
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