单词 | volcano cone |
释义 | > as lemmasvolcano cone C1. General attributive, as volcano cone, volcano crater, volcano-fire, volcano mountain, volcano observatory, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] Vulcan?a1425 volcan1577 volcano1613 furnace1660 volcanello1669 volcano mountain1693 pseudo-volcano1794 mud volcano1816 salse1831 stratovolcano1894 shield volcano1911 1693 J. A. Barnard Bohun's Geogr. Dict. (new ed.) 132/2 Epomeus or Epopeus, a Vulcanoe-Mountain in the midst of the Island of Ischia, in the Thuscan Ocean. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World VI. xix. 2174 The next, a volcano-mountain, may readily be known by the smoke issuing from the top. 1804 J. Wolcot Epist. to Ld. Mayor in Wks. (1812) V. 208 A great city orator..and elève of John Wilkes, Of volcano immortality. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 30 Like mountain-twins that from each other's veins Catch the volcano-fire and earthquake spasm. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxvi. 289 Spongy lavas, which the volcano blast drags hither and thither into ropy coils. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 76 I have seen the other face of it... It is the old volcano land. 1913 Z. Grey Desert Gold xi. 188 It rose slowly to a low dim and dark-red zone of lava, spurred, peaked, domed by volcano cones. 1913 Science 12 Sept. 356/1 In accordance with the working hypothesis at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the molten magma is due to rise on the approach of the summer solstice. 1947 M. S. Douglas Everglades i. 31 Under the sun glare or the moonlight it would look stranger than a blasted volcano crater. 1999 Independent 31 May i. 11/1 There are so many old volcano cones on the valley floor that it looks like the aftermath of some gargantuan Guy Fawkes' celebration. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Nov. ii. 28/1 Mr. Sweeney often flies over the volcano field near Flagstaff en route to Florida or Texas. < as lemmas |
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