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scoria
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scoria has 1 sense
- scoria(n = noun.substance) dross, slag - the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals; Array is a kind of scum
has particulars: basic slag
CIDE DICTIONARY
scoria, n. [L., fr. Gr. , fr. dung, ordure.].
- The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross. [1913 Webster]
- Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scoria, n. (pl. scoriae)
1 cellular lava, or fragments of it.
2 the slag or dross of metals.
1 cellular lava, or fragments of it.
2 the slag or dross of metals.
Derivative
scoriaceous adj.
Etymology
L f. Gk skoria refuse f. skor dung
THESAURUS
scoria
aa, abyssal rock, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, basalt, bedrock, block lava, brand, brash, breccia, calx, carbon, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, conglomerate, coom, crag, deposition, deposits, diluvium, draff, dregs, dross, druid stone, ember, feces, festooned pahoehoe, froth, fume, gneiss, granite, grounds, igneous rock, lava, lees, limestone, living rock, loess, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, moraine, offscum, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, precipitate, precipitation, pudding stone, reek, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scree, scum, sediment, sedimentary rock, settlings, shelly pahoehoe, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, stone, sublimate, sullage, talus, tufa, tuff
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