Synonyms:
vent, volcano
Meaning: a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
Usage examples
We were rounding the immense base of the volcano.
Just then the rear wheel on that side slumped down into what seemed a veritable volcano.
You do not know on what a volcano you are sitting. You do not know the ways of buccaneers.
Upon the 28th of August, 1883, the volcano of Krakatoa, of the Straits of Sunda, had blown up.
Even the snakes, which at ordinary times are found in great numbers near the volcano, crawled away.
From the crater of the volcano a huge wave of fire fanned forward, and where fire and water met a cloud of steam rose up.
I spent that whole night in one constant nightmare; in the heart of a volcano, and from the deepest depths of the earth I saw myself tossed up amongst the interplanetary spaces under the form of an eruptive rock.
People could have watched and seen these deserted buildings slowly fuse together, run together as molten metal runs together, like the lava from a volcano of long ago under the ponderous moving to and fro of some invisible, juggernautlike agency.
Therefore a time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and drive out for themselves openings through tall chimneys. Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.