Definition of 'lava'
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lava in British English
noun
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Word origin
C18: from Italian (Neapolitan dialect), from Latin lavāre to wash
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lava in American English
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a brown carbonaceous sedimentary rock with woody texture that consists of accumulated layers of partially decomposed vegetation: used as a fuel. Fixed carbon content: 46–60 per cent; calorific value: 1.28 × 107 to 1.93 × 107 J/kg (5500 to 8300 Btu/lb)
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a hard jet-black coal that burns slowly with a nonluminous flame giving out intense heat. Fixed carbon content: 86–98 per cent; calorific value: 3.14 × 107–3.63 × 107 J/kg
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any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers because its micaceous minerals have become aligned in thin parallel bands
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a dark coarse-grained igneous plutonic rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar and ferromagnesian minerals such as hornblende
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any coarse-grained sedimentary rock consisting of rounded fragments of rock embedded in a finer matrix
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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
- 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: หินลาวา
- Turkish: lav
- Ukrainian: лава
- Vietnamese: nham thạch
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