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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Lavation :: Lavation (n.) A washing or cleansing.
Coulee :: Coulee (n.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a ca–on, which has precipitous sides..
Lavatories :: Lavatories (pl. ) of Lavator.
Lavaret :: Lavaret (n.) A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland..
Stalactites :: Stalactite (n.) In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava..
Pahoehoe :: Pahoehoe (n.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a..
Jewstone :: Jewstone (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.
Vesicular :: Vesicular (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf..
Trumpets :: Trumpets (n. pl.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves..
Lithophyse :: Lithophyse (n.) A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name..
Cassidony :: Cassidony (n.) The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas.
Irrelavance :: Irrelavance (n.) Irrelevancy.
Doleritic :: Doleritic (a.) Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava..
Melilite :: Melilite (n.) A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere..
Flavaniline :: Flavaniline (n.) A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline..
Cinder :: Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano..
Clavated :: Clavated (a.) Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.
Ignigenous :: Ignigenous (a.) Produced by the action of fire, as lava..
Watches :: Watches (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.
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