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cinder cone en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A conical deposit of rock fragments around a volcano.
   • The expiring energies of these volcanic agencies have piled up huge cinder cones that stand along the fissures, red, brown, and black, naked of vegetation, and conspicuous landmarks, set as they are in contrast to the bright, variegated rocks of sedimentary origin. 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
   • There are ruins of cinder cones—evidence of fairly recent local action—and, in the basins and on the ranges, widespread falls of light ash from volcanoes beyond the province. 1981, John McPhee, Basin and Range; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 52:

Forms

Synonyms

scoria cone

Translations (8)

pt cone de escória (conical deposit of rock fragments) · haw puʻu ʻākeke (conical deposit of rock fragments) · ru шла́ковый ко́нус (conical deposit of rock fragments) · es cono de escoria (conical deposit of rock fragments) · zh 火山渣錐 (conical deposit of rock fragments) · es cono de ceniza (conical deposit of rock fragments) · fi tuhkakartio (conical deposit of rock fragments) · zh 火山渣锥 (conical deposit of rock fragments)