lava
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lava/ˈlɑːvə/
▶noun hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.
– origin C18: from Ital. (orig. denoting a stream caused by sudden rain), from lavare ‘to wash’, from L.
'lava' also found in these Oxford entries:
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- basic
- bomb
- carbonatite
- cinder cone
- coulee
- effusive
- erupt
- extrusive
- igneous
- lava lamp
- maar
- magma
- nuée ardente
- obsidian
- pahoehoe
- pillow lava
- plug
- pumice
- rhyolite
- scoria
- stratovolcano
- vent
- volcano
