<span class="searchmatch">lapilli</span> plural of lapillus plural of lapillo <span class="searchmatch">lapillī</span> inflection of lapillus: nominative/vocative plural genitive singular...
Borrowed from Italian lapillo. lapillo (plural <span class="searchmatch">lapilli</span>) Synonym of lapillus (“lava fragment”). From Latin lapillus. IPA(key): /laˈpil.lo/ Rhymes: -illo...
From Latin lapillus. lapillus (plural <span class="searchmatch">lapilli</span>) A fragment of lava ejected from a volcano. 2007 May 8, Henry Fountain, “It’s Still Dark Out, So Why Are...
rapilli pl (normally plural, singular rapillo) (now rare) Small fragments of rock, pumice and other ejecta thrown out by a volcano. [from 18th c.] <span class="searchmatch">lapilli</span>...
left by the pyroclastic flow from a volcano, consisting of ash, pumice <span class="searchmatch">lapilli</span>, and lithic fragments. [from 20th c.] 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth,...
pyroclastic flow; a gas-rich, hot, dense, ground-hugging torrent of ash, <span class="searchmatch">lapilli</span>, and volcanic blocks that results from the gravitational collapse of a...
Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧ci‧na bagacina f (plural bagacinas) (Açores, geology) <span class="searchmatch">lapilli</span> (small fragment of volcanic rock with dimensions varying between 0.5 and...
Arcadian Propertius, Elegiae 3.3: [...] hic erat affixis viridis spelunca <span class="searchmatch">lapillis</span>, pendebantque cavis tympana pumicibus, orgia Musarum et Sileni patris imago...