mud volcano

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noun

a vent in the earth's surface through which escaping gas and vapor issue, causing mud to boil and occasionally to overflow, forming a conical mound around the vent.

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Origin of mud volcano

First recorded in 1810–20

Words nearby mud volcano

mudspringer, mudstone, mud stream, mudsucker, mud turtle, mud volcano, mud wasp, mud-wrestling, mu ehr, Mueller, muenster

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How to use mud volcano in a sentence

He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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They described him as clad in black, his face smeared with mud.
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Knee deep in mud, sweat mixing with rain, they forced the Land Rover through the jungle.
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Sheets of torrential rains pouring down over the Land Rover sent its four wheels plunging into the mud.
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All around you are farms fields dotted with canted mud structures.
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A volcano broke out in the island of St. George, one of the Azores.
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Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.
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Fujiyama, the noted volcano of Japan, is twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-five feet high.
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In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.
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The sun was palely shining upon dry, clean pavements and upon roads juicy with black mud.
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British Dictionary definitions for mud volcano

mud volcano

noun

a cone-shaped mound formed from fine mud ejected, with gases and water, from hot springs, geysers, etc, in volcanic regions

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