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

(volcanology) A roughly circular mound-shaped bulge that builds up from the slow eruption of viscous felsic lava from a volcano.

plural of lava dome

(geology, uncountable) The rock type, resembling pillows, typically formed when lava emerges from an underwater volcanic vent or a lava flow enters the ocean. / (geology, countable) A rock of that type.

Alternative spelling of lavalike

plural of lava lamp

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.

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