Volcano

Noun

 * 1) A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

Adjectives for Volcano
extinct; perilous; concealed; slumbering; barren; drowned; spiritual; smoldering.

Verbs for Volcano
fling into—; gaze into—; pacify—; placate—; toss into—; —activates; —awakens; — belches; —buries; —chokes; —destroys; — devastates; —discharges; —ejects; —embroils; —emits; —endangers; —erupts; — flows; —foments; —fulminates; —fumes; — lies dormant; —looms; —quiets; —ram¬pages; —rises; —roars; —rumbles; —seethes; —simmers; —sleeps; —smoulders; — spews forth; —strangles; —streams over; —threatens; —vents.

Thesaurus
burst, cascade, debouchment, dissiliency, eructation, eruption, flare-up, gush, jet, outbreak, outburst, rapids, rush, spate, spew, spurt, torrent, volcan

Etymology
From vulcano:, from   Vulcanus: the Roman god of fire and metalworking. Perhaps related to Greek πῦρ: and καίειν:

Derived terms

 * active volcano
 * complex volcano
 * dormant volcano
 * extinct volcano
 * mud volcano
 * shield volcano


 * stratovolcano
 * subglacial volcano
 * supervolcano
 * volcanic
 * volcanism
 * volcanology

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vulkaan
 * Albanian: vullkan
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: (burkān),  (jábalu-n-nār)
 * Aragonese: bolcán
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:, yanardağ
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: volcà
 * Chinese: 火山 (huǒshān)
 * Corsican: volcanu
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, tulemägi
 * Faroese: gosfjall
 * Finnish:
 * Flemish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: vulcan
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian: lua pele (occ. pele)
 * Hebrew: הר געש
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: gunung berapi
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 火山 (かざん, kazan)
 * Javanese: gunung geni
 * Kannada:, ,


 * Khmer: ភ្នំភ្លើង
 * Korean: 화산 (hwasan)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kölsch:
 * Latin: mons ignifer
 * Latvian: vulkāns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon:
 * Luxembourgish: Vulkan
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: gunung berapi
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: вулкан
 * Roman: vulkan
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, volkeno
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: எரிமலை
 * Thai: (poo kăo fai)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Waray:
 * Welsh: llosgfynydd
 * West Frisian: fulkaan