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VOLCANO
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Irregular inflected form: volcanoes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
Synonyms:
vent; volcano
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("volcano" is a kind of...):
cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure (a long narrow opening)
Domain member category:
eructation; eruption; extravasation ((of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed))
active ((of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A mountain formed by volcanic material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("volcano" is a kind of...):
mount; mountain (a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill)
Meronyms (parts of "volcano"):
crater; volcanic crater (a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano)
Instance hyponyms:
Mount Vesuvius; Mt. Vesuvius; Vesuvius (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)
Mount Saint Helens; Mount St. Helens; Mt. St. Helens (an active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington; erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity)
Tupungatito (an inactive volcano in central Chile; last erupted in 1959)
Sangay (an inactive volcano in the Andes in central Ecuador; last erupted in 1946)
Purace (an inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Colombia; last erupted in 1950)
Nyiragongo; Nyamuragira (an active volcano in eastern Congo)
Mauna Loa (an active volcano on south central Hawaii Island)
Mauna Kea (an active volcano on north central Hawaii Island; highest peak in the Hawaiian Islands)
Lascar (a volcano in the Andes in Chile)
Krakatao; Krakatau; Krakatoa (a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history)
Klyuchevskaya (an inactive volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula; last erupted in 1946)
Huainaputina (an inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Peru; last erupted in 1783)
Guallatiri (the world's highest volcano; in the Andes in northern Chile; last erupted in 1959)
Galeras; Pasto (an active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes)
Fuji; Fuji-san; Fujinoyama; Fujiyama; Mount Fuji (an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages)
Fuego (a volcano in south central Guatemala. In Spanish, Fuego means Fire or Flame)
Etna; Mount Etna; Mt Etna (an inactive volcano in Sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in Europe (10,500 feet))
El Misti (the world's 2nd largest active volcano; located in the Andes in southern Peru)
Demavend (an active volcano in northern Iran)
Cotopaxi (the world's largest active volcano; located in the Andes in north central Ecuador)
Cotacachi (an Andean volcano in northern Ecuador; last erupted in 1955)
Colima; Nevado de Colima; Volcan de Colima (an active volcano in southwestern Mexico)
Citlaltepetl; Mount Orizaba; Mt Orizaba; Pico de Orizaba (an extinct volcano in southern Mexico between Mexico City and Veracruz; the highest peak in Mexico (18,695 feet))
Cameroon (an inactive volcano in western Cameroon; highest peak on the West African coast)
Mount Pinatubo; Pinatubo (a volcano on Luzon to the northwest of Manila; erupted in 1991 after 600 years of dormancy)
Asama; Mount Asama (a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet))
Derivation:
volcanic (relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes)
Context examples:
In the background a volcano crater was silhouetted against the stars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Until the latest spectacular eruption opened up fissures on the flank of the volcano, Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii held a vast lava lake in its summit crater.
(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Scientists believe that most of the water that goes down at a trench comes back into the atmosphere as water vapor when volcanoes erupt.
(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)
A chemical substance found naturally in small amounts in plants, trees, volcanoes, and forest fires.
(Acetone, NCI Dictionary)
Io is the closest thing we have to hell in our Solar System, a Jovian moon that features hundreds of active volcanoes and expansive lakes filled with lava.
(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Specifically, it would be a cryovolcano — a volcano that erupts a liquid made of volatiles such as water, instead of silicates.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
There have been volcanoes, some of whose openings still send out waters of strange properties, and gases that kill or make to vivify.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The Sun has long been known to go through eleven-year cycles of high and low activity, including sunspots, which Strugarek likened to solar volcanoes.
(Sun's mood swings not so strange after all, Wikinews)
An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His stout mittens temporarily protected his hands, and he scooped live coals into the air in all directions, until the campfire took on the semblance of a volcano.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
