Definition of 'lava'
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lava in British English
noun
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C18: from Italian (Neapolitan dialect), from Latin lavāre to wash
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lava in American English
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
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lava in American English
(ˈlɑːvə, ˈlævə)
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2.
the rock formed when this solidifies, occurring in many varieties differing greatly in structure and constitution
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[1740–50; ‹ It, orig. Neapolitan dial.: avalanche ‹ L lābēs a sliding down, falling, akin to lābī to slide]Examples of 'lava' in a sentence
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any fine-grained igneous rock consisting essentially of quartz and feldspar
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a very hard metamorphic rock consisting of a mosaic of intergrown quartz crystals
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a dark basic intrusive igneous rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar and a pyroxene, such as augite; often emplaced in dykes
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an ultrabasic igneous rock consisting mainly of olivine
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a dark volcanic glass formed by very rapid solidification of lava
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lava
British English: lava
/ˈlɑːvə/ NOUN
Lava is the very hot liquid rock that comes out of a volcano.
... the lava and ash from the volcano.
- American English: lava /ˈlævə, ˈlɑvə/
- Arabic: حِمَمٌ بُرْكَانِيَّةٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: lava
- Chinese: 熔岩
- Croatian: lava
- Czech: láva
- Danish: lava
- Dutch: lava
- European Spanish: lava
- Finnish: laava
- French: lave
- German: Lava
- Greek: λάβα
- Italian: lava
- Japanese: 溶岩
- Korean: 용암
- Norwegian: lava
- Polish: lawa
- European Portuguese: lava
- Romanian: lavă
- Russian: лава
- Latin American Spanish: lava
- Swedish: lava
- Thai: ลาวา (หินหลอมเหลวจากภูเขาไฟระเบิด)
- Turkish: lav
- Ukrainian: лава
- Vietnamese: nham thạch
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