单词 | hornito |
释义 | horniton. A low oven-shaped mound of volcanic origin, usually emitting smoke and vapour from its sides and summit: frequent in South American volcanoes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] > cone or peak pike1555 puy1827 cone1830 hornito1830 monticule1830 cinder-cone1849 parasitic cone1863 mud cone1868 piton1886 driblet cone1888 sommac1910 shield1937 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 378 The small conical mounds (called ‘hornitos’ or ovens) [at Jorullo]. 1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) i. §43. 33 Out of which sprang thousands of little volcanic cones called Hornitos or ovens. 1877 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (1879) 83 These subordinate cones about the base, and upon the slopes of the principal cone, are called monticules or hornitos. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1830 |
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