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volcano

UK/vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ/US/vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/
nounB1Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,582 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: volcanoes, volcanos

A volcano is a mountain with fire inside that can erupt with melted rock. An active volcano, the volcano erupted, a dormant volcano.

Most sit along the edges of tectonic plates, and the ring around the Pacific holds the majority of them. Thick sticky magma makes the explosive kind and runny magma the gentle Hawaiian kind. It is named after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, through an Italian island.

Cyrus Read Geophysicist USGS, Alaska Volcano Observatory cread@usgs.gov · Public domain

Definitions of volcano

  1. 1nounvolcanoA mountain that can erupt with melted rock.B1

    “The volcano erupted, sending ash and smoke high into the sky.”

volcano is a mountain.

Where it comes from

Italian vulcano comes from Vulcano, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, named for Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

  1. Italian

    vulcano

  2. English, today

    volcano

Built from

  • Vulcano · Italian — a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea

Borrowed from Italian vulcano. From Italian vulcano, from Vulcano (“a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea”), from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). a doublet of bolcane and Vulcan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Nature & Weather

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volcano in the wild

  • Olympus Mons (; Latin for 'Mount Olympus') is a large shield volcano on Mars.

    Olympus Mons

  • For example, volcanoes are very numerous on Venus.

    Volcano

  • Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park, wherein the two volcanoes are located, is named after them.

    Popocatépetl

  • Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

    Mauna Loa

  • Mauna Loa is Earth's largest active volcano by both mass and volume.

    Mauna Loa

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.