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‖ peperino Geol.|pɛpəˈriːnəʊ|
Also piperno, piperino.
[It. peperino, in Florio piperigno, dial. piperno, f. pepere pepper: so called from its consisting of small grains.]
A light porous volcanic rock or tuff, usually of a brown colour, formed of sand, cinders, etc. cemented together: a name first given to the tufas of Monte Albano near Rome.
1777Hamilton in Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 3 The stone in general use for building here, is..a hard volcanic tuffa..of the sort called Piperno in Italy. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 197 Tufa, peperino, or piperno. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 415 Piperino..seems a concretion of volcanic ashes. 1879Rutley Study Rocks xii. 233 The piperno of Pianura, near Naples. 1882Geikie Geol. Sk. 111 We took refuge in a little cave in the calcareous peperino. |