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Plural of lava

regular plural

The plural of lava is lavas.

Forms of lava

Singularlava /ˈlɑːvə/
Plurallavas
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lavas in a sentence

  • Our results indicate that the lathwork textures (Fig. 14c) commonly found in basaltic lavas (e.g.2023, Consuele Maorrone, Emilia Le Pera, Kathleen M. Marsaglia, Rosanna De Rosa, “Provenance controls on vaolcaniclastic beach sand…. From the entry lathwork
  • Porphyritic and microdoleritic lavas occur in very low proportion in the Garba IVE-F assemblages (Tables 1 and 2 ).2015 December 22, “The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia”…. From the entry microdoleritic
  • Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 38. From the entry laterite
  • When the lavas cooled they would pass through the Curie point, and their magnetic minerals would become magnetised.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 143. From the entry Curie point
  • Ancient pillow lavas are easily recognisable.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 45. From the entry pillow lava

Meaning of lava

  1. noun The molten rock ejected by a volcano from a vent such as a crater or fissure; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.
  2. noun A body of lava.
  3. noun Solidified lava.

Full definition of lava

Questions about the plural of lava

What is the plural of lava?
The plural of lava is lavas.
Is lava countable?
Lava is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lava (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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