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noun
A natural glass produced by the cooling of molten lava, or a liquid fraction of it, too rapidly to permit crystallization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
a kind of natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: volcanic rock
Narrower terms: obsidian, pitchstone, tachylite
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