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Volcanoes

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vol·ca·no  (vl-kn)
n. pl. vol·ca·noes or vol·ca·nos
1.
a. An opening in the earth's crust through which molten lava, ash, and gases are ejected.
b. A similar opening on the surface of another planet.
2. A mountain formed by the materials ejected from a volcano.
[Italian, from Spanish volcán or Portuguese volcão, both probably from Latin volcnus, vulcnus, fire, flames, from Volcnus, Vulcan.]
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volcano
cutaway of an erupting volcano
Volcanoes
See also geology; mountains.

volcanism
the phenomena connected with volcanoes and volcanic activity. Also vulcanism. — volcanist, n.
volcanology
Geology. the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena. Also vulcanology. — volcanologist, n. — volcanologic, volcanological, adj.
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On the Exchange there were hurricanes and landslides and snowstorms and glaciers and volcanoes, and those elemental disturbances were reproduced in miniature in the broker's offices.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
The kingdom is a peninsula, terminated to the north-east by a ridge of mountains thirty miles high, which are altogether impassable, by reason of the volcanoes upon the tops: neither do the most learned know what sort of mortals inhabit beyond those mountains, or whether they be inhabited at all.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
I saw clearly the cultivated ranges, and the several mountain-chains that run parallel with the side, and the volcanoes that overtop Mouna-Rea, which rise 5,000 yards above the level of the sea.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
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