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active volcanoes

active volcanoes is the plural of active volcano.

Meaning of active volcano

Noun

active volcano (plural active volcanoes or active volcanos)

  1. A volcano that has erupted in the last 10,000 years, although not necessarily venting lava or gases now.
    • Such a series if it can be still obtained, would be of the greatest interest, for we have there an active volcano in the centre of an Island, upheavements going on on the Coast within the memory of man, and coal found; all within the space of a few miles!1841, “Report on the Soils brought from Chedooba”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 10, page 447

Questions about active volcanoes

What is active volcanoes the plural of?
Active volcanoes is the plural of active volcano.

Words near active volcanoes in the dictionary

  1. active vocabularies
  2. active vocabulary
  3. active voice
  4. active voices
  5. active volcano
  6. active volcanoes
  7. active volcanos
  8. active-duty
  9. actively
  10. activeness
  11. activenesses

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