volcano
see also: Volcano
Etymology
Volcano
Proper noun
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see also: Volcano
Etymology
From Italian vulcano, from Latin Vulcānus.
Pronunciation Nounvolcano (plural volcanos or volcanoes)
- A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
- Iceland's volcanoes are among the most active on Earth.
- A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
- French: volcan
- German: Vulkan, (poetic) Feuerberg, feuerspeiender Berg
- Italian: vulcano
- Portuguese: vulcão
- Russian: вулка́н
- Spanish: volcán
volcano (volcanos, present participle volcanoing; simple past and past participle volcanoed)
- to erupt; to burst forth
- 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child:
- She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again
- 2012, George Pratt, Peter Lambrou, John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness:
- Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.
Volcano
Proper noun
- CDP in Amador County, California.
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