Lava

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  • noun. Molten rock that reaches the earth's surface through a volcano or fissure.
  • noun. The rock formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten rock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Molten rock which issues from a volcano during an eruption; the same when cooled and hardened.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.
  • noun. a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from the neighborhood of the Rhine.
  • noun. a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in appearance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
  • noun. Magma.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
  • Word Usage
    "“So I have to get to the bathroom without stepping on the floor, because it is covered in lava and alligators?”"
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    aa  pahoehoe  pillow lava  
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    Cava  Java  Sava  bava  cava  
    Same Context
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    ash  basalt  chalk  charcoal  cinder  
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    aa  abyssal rock  ash  ashes  basalt