Definition of lava

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Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

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Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.
Stream :: Stream (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano..
Irrelavant :: Irrelavant (a.) Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case..
Magma :: Magma (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..
Trumpets :: Trumpets (n. pl.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves..
Aspic :: Aspic (n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike..
Lavation :: Lavation (n.) A washing or cleansing.
Torrent :: Torrent (n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice..
Vesiculate :: Vesiculate (v. t.) To form vesicles in, as lava..
Stalactites :: Stalactite (n.) In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava..
Irrelavance :: Irrelavance (n.) Irrelevancy.
Pumice :: Pumice (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone..
Vesbium :: Vesbium (n.) A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
Ignigenous :: Ignigenous (a.) Produced by the action of fire, as lava..
Melilite :: Melilite (n.) A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere..
Claviform :: Claviform (a.) Club-shaped; clavate.
Igneous :: Igneous (a.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks..
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