pahoehoen.

1825 W. Ellis Jrnl. Tour Hawaii (1963) ix. 173 If a sufficient number of fish were not taken to them by inhabitants of the sea-shore, they would go down, and with fire kill the fish, fill up with pahoehoe (lava) the shallow places, and destroy the fishing grounds.

1844 C. Wilkes Narr. U.S. Exploring Exped. IV. iv. 144 There were, apparently, streams of pahoihoi coming out from underneath the masses of clinkers wherever they had stopped.

1851 Littell's Living Age 5 July 23/1 There (says the narrative) they were surrounded by huge clinkers and ridges, running generally north and south in lines across the crater; between these was the pahoihoi, or smooth lava.

1864 R. Anderson Hawaiian Islands 142 The broken lava is piled ten or fifteen feet above the smooth, hard pahoihoi.

1887 Science 4 Mar. 206/2 The neighboring flow of 1868, equally sudden and copious, was pahoehoe, or smooth, hummocky lava.

1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) v. 91 At central volcanic cones, two other varieties are distinguished, the aa flow, which breaks up at its advancing front into blocks of scoria, and the pahoehoe, which flows with a ropy surface.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Sept. 4/2 One is pahoehoe—a taffy-like lava that has hardened into folds and creases that give it a smooth, ropy look, like frosting that has spilled over the top of a cake.

1975 Nature 29 May 387/1 The eruptions of this period include two..which produced pahoehoe instead of the more normal aa flows of Etna.

1995 Earth Oct. 35 (caption) A highly fluid lava, pahoehoe spreads in thin sheets and is sculpted into ropy folds as flow continues below the hardening surface.