lava

Meaning of lava

noun

hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.
tablelands of lava
porphyritic lavas

mid 18th century: from Italian (Neapolitan dialect), denoting the lava stream from Vesuvius, but originally denoting a stream caused by sudden rain, from lavare ‘to wash’, from Latin.

Information about lava

It is a name.
The plural form of lava is: lavas.
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Hyphenation of lava

lava

It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
lava is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Translation of lava

Spanish: lava
French: lave
German: Lava
Italian: lava

Anagrams of lava

Alva, aval, Vaal, Vala

Words that rhyme with lava

Sakalava, lavalava, Balaclava, Clava, Vaclava, baclava, balaclava, clava, flava, subflava, Jihlava, Balaklava, baklava, Bratislava

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