lava
lava
Definition
lava (lä′və, lav′ə)
lava
Synonyms
lava
Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- volcano: On the northeastern rim of the outer caldera is an area covered with layers of lava from the volcano 's most recent eruptions.
Converse of object
- spew: That means there is little chance of the mountain spewing lava.
- solidify: Some are formed by solidifying lava that do not form a crater, leaving a " puy " .
- erupt: Did you know that not all volcanoes erupt lava?
- boil: Dodge Ball - Normal dodge ball is too easy for these chimps: they have to play it over a pit of boiling lava!
- bubble: The first section has a deep fissure which contains bubbling lava.
Adjective modifier
- basaltic: No ordinary Tor indeed, as this tor isn't the usual granite, but rather basaltic lava.
- molten: We decided these were formed by molten lava building up around trees, which burnt away.
- feldspathic: May we venture to suppose that in the feldspathic lavas with horizontal laminae, we see an analogous case?
- Tertiary: Agates may also be found in the Tertiary basalt lavas of some areas on the west coast.
- volcanic: One porter was burnt by volcanic lava crossing the crater.
- hardened: Na pali coast hardened lava a quarter mile away.
Modifies a noun
- lamp: Place lava lamps around the room to give a new age feel.
- dome: Aerial photography taken on 21 July revealed than an external lava dome was not visible at the bottom of the crater.
- flow: The lava flows were limited by using water sprays.
- lizard: There are colonies of marine iguanas & lava lizards here.
- plateau: The columns formed when liquid molten rock was forced up through cracks in the chalk bed to form a lava plateau.
- tube: An average boat helped a little trees next to most lava tubes.
Noun used with modifier
lava Quotes
In all museums throughout the world one may see plaster casts of footprints of weird animals, footprints preserved for posterity, not because the animals were particularly good of their sort, but because they had the luck to walkon the lava while it was cooling. There is just a faint hope that something of the same sort may happen to us.
Browse dictionary entries near lava
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- lavabo basin
- lavabo bowl
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- lavabo dish (or basin or bowl)
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