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
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lava in American English
(ˈlɑːvə, ˈlævə)
noun
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 of a class of exceptionally coarse-grained intrusive igneous rocks consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspar: often occurring as dykes among igneous rocks of finer grain
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a dark grey clay rock similar to shale but with the lamination less well developed
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a dark coarse-grained basic plutonic igneous rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and often olivine
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a light-coloured coarse-grained acid plutonic igneous rock consisting of quartz, feldspars, and such ferromagnesian minerals as biotite or hornblende: widely used for building
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a combustible compact black or dark-brown carbonaceous rock formed from compaction of layers of partially decomposed vegetation: a fuel and a source of coke, coal gas, and coal tar
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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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