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lava

[lah-vuh, lav-uh] / ˈlɑ və, ˈlæv ə /
NOUN
volcano matter
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Snaking through dunes, mountains and lava fields, the pipeline carries oil from huge fields in eastern Saudi Arabia to the country’s Red Sea Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Although these lava deposits look different today, they were all fed by the same underlying magma reservoir.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

What they dug out was at points like "molten lava".

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

The newly identified structure appears larger than lava tubes observed on Earth or projected for Mars.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

Her great horsy face had turned the colour of molten lava and her eyes were glittering with fury.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl