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English
Etymology
From lava + -scape.
Noun
lavascape (plural lavascapes)
- A landscape created by a lava flow or flows.
1922, Charmian London, Our Hawaii: (Islands and Islanders), The Macmillan Company, page 274:On through the uncanny, distorted lavascape cautiously we fared under a cloud-rifted sky, and finally left the horses in a small corral of quarried lava, thence proceeding afoot to the House of Fire.
2003, Jeff Greenwald, “Oases in Black”, in Islands Magazine, January-February 2003:The barrier protected this knob of native Hawaiian forest, which continues to rise above the surreal lavascape around it.
2008, Andrew Evans, Iceland, Brandt, →ISBN, page 191:In the midst of the spooky black lavascape that is Reykjanes, the ethereal blue waters of these enormous manmade hot springs seem absolutely weird and strangely inviting.
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