The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides. / (informal, proscribed) Magma. / A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.

(Hinduism) One of the twin children of the Lord Rāma and his wife Sita in the Ramayana.

plural of lava

A kind of lamp, typically used more for decoration than illumination, in which the gentle flow of randomly-shaped clumps of wax purportedly suggests the flowing of lava.

A natural conduit formed by flowing lava that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.

plural of lava tube

plural of lava bear

A non-existent bear species that was once thought to inhabit the lava beds of south central Oregon.

plural of lava lake

(volcanology) A reservoir of molten lava contained in a volcanic vent, crater, or broad depression.