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单词 mount vesuvius
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Mount Vesuvius

[ (vuh-sooh-vee-uhs) ]

Volcano, in southwestern Italy on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

notes for Mount Vesuvius

It is the only active volcano on the mainland of Europe. (Another, Mount Etna, is on the island of Sicily.)

notes for Mount Vesuvius

One of its earliest recorded eruptions, in a.d. 79, buried Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae under cinders, ash, and mud.

Words nearby Mount Vesuvius

Mount Robson Park, Mount Rushmore, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Shasta, Mount Vernon, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Washington, Mount Whitney, Mount Wilson Observatory, Mounty, mourn
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