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• vulcano (obsolete)

From Italian vulcano, from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane and Vulcan.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ/, (obsolete) /vɒlˈkɑː.nəʊ/^[1]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/, /vɔlˈkeɪ.noʊ/

volcano (plural volcanoes or volcanos)

1. A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

   Iceland's volcanoes are among the most active on Earth.

2. A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

• mountain

• Bislama: volkeno
• → Scottish Gaelic: bholcàno
• → Swahili: volkano, volkeno

• crater
• lava
• lava flow
• magma
• vent

volcano (third-person singular simple present volcanos or volcanoes, present participle volcanoing, simple past and past participle volcanoed)

1. to erupt; to burst forth

   • 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child:

     She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again

   • 2012, George Pratt, Peter Lambrou, John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness:

     Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.

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