VESUVIUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944

Synonyms:

Mount Vesuvius; Mt. Vesuvius; Vesuvius

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

volcano (a mountain formed by volcanic material)

Holonyms ("Vesuvius" is a part of...):

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

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