moya
moya noun: flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.
Noun
moya (countable and uncountable, plural moyas)
- Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.
- These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40
- Synonyms:
- mud lava, volcanic mud, tufaceous mud
Proper noun capitalized: Moya
Moya (plural Moyas)
- A surname from Spanish.
Synonyms of moya
- mud lava
- volcanic mud
- tufaceous mud
Forms of moya
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | moyas |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Moyas |
Origin of moya
Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.
Questions about moya
- What does moya mean?
- Moya means flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.
- What part of speech is moya?
- Moya can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of moya?
- The plural of moya is moyas.
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