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Meanings of crater in English

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cratera vulcânica

A bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano.

        cratera vulcânica
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        Examples for "volcanic crater"
        Examples for "volcanic crater"
        1
        When Melchior took the cigar away, Bayo's nipple looked like a volcanic crater.
        Shift
        2
        It was clearly an old volcanic crater: bare, reddish-gray rock walls, an eroded cone.
        The Lost World
        3
        The volcanic crater was often flooded with sea water.
        Pubmed
        4
        The crater of Mount Elgon has long since lost any resemblance to a volcanic crater.
        In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
        5
        There are eleven volcanic crater lakes on the island.
        The South African
        Usage of crater in English
        1
        UKERT.-Thisbright crater, 14 miles in diameter, situated in the region N.E.
        The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical F...
        2
        Thurgood swept his hand in the general direction of the blast crater.
        A Filbert Is a Nut
        3
        The first mysterious crater was spotted by oil workers earlier this month.
        News.com.au
        4
        Or the crater was left by an explosive device, the source said.
        The Guardian
        5
        When they arrived they found the victims scattered across the crater floor.
        Radio NZ
        6
        I wonder if they'll name the new crater after me, thought Cliff.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        7
        It recently snapped this view eastwards across the Endeavour crater on Mars.
        The Guardian
        8
        It left a crater 20km wide which can be seen from space.
        News.com.au
        9
        Sky News showed footage of the crater left by the car bomb.
        Act of treason
        10
        It occupied the crater of an extinct volcano, 4 m. in circumference.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        11
        A similar crater was the result of the mining at La Bassée.
        The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) / Neuve Chapelle, B...
        12
        No, but they didn't just let her crater, and that means something.
        End of Watch
        13
        Happily the bottle which contained the air of the crater escaped unhurt.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        14
        The lowering sun colored only the upper half of the crater walls.
        Desert Gold
        15
        They pressed forward to the beginning of the bridge across the crater.
        Lost on the Moon; Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds
        16
        Each for himself reached the crater in his own way and time.
        Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
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