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lavascape en · NOUN

Etymology

From lava + -scape.

Meanings

1. A landscape created by a lava flow or flows.
   • On through the uncanny, distorted lavascape cautiously we fared under a cloud-rifted sky, and finally left the horses in a small corral of quarried lava, thence proceeding afoot to the House of Fire. 1922, Charmian London, Our Hawaii: (Islands and Islanders), The Macmillan Company, page 274:
   • The barrier protected this knob of native Hawaiian forest, which continues to rise above the surreal lavascape around it. 2003, Jeff Greenwald, “Oases in Black”, in Islands Magazine, January-February 2003:
   • In the midst of the spooky black lavascape that is Reykjanes, the ethereal blue waters of these enormous manmade hot springs seem absolutely weird and strangely inviting. 2008, Andrew Evans, Iceland, Brandt, →ISBN, page 191:

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