volcanic bomb

English

Noun

volcanic bomb (plural volcanic bombs)

1. (volcanology) A tephra, larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.

   Synonym: lava bomb

   • 1844, Charles Darwin, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle:

     Fragment of a spherical volcanic bomb, with the interior parts coarsely cellular, coated by a concentric layer of compact lava, and this again by a crust of finely cellular rock

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: قنبلة بركانية
• Armenian: հրաբխային ռումբ (hy) (hrabxayin ṙumb)
• Azerbaijani: vulkan bombası
• Basque: bonba bolkaniko
• Belarusian: вулканічная бомба f (vulkaničnaja bómba)
• Bulgarian: вулканична бомба f (vulkanična bomba)
• Catalan: bomba volcànica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火山彈／火山弹 (zh) (huǒshāndàn)

• Czech: sopečná puma f
• Dutch: vulkanische bom f
• Estonian: vulkaaniline pomm
• Finnish: vulkaaninen pommi
• French: bombe volcanique f
• Galician: bomba volcánica (gl) f
• Georgian: ვულკანური ყუმბარა (vulḳanuri q̇umbara)
• German: vulkanische Bombe f
• Greek: ηφαιστειακή βόμβα f (ifaisteiakí vómva)
• Hebrew: פצצה געשית
• Hungarian: vulkáni bomba
• Icelandic: hraunkúla
• Italian: bomba vulcanica f
• Japanese: 火山弾 (ja)
• Macedonian: вулканска бомба f (vulkanska bomba)
• Persian: بمب آتشفشانی (fa)
• Polish: bomba wulkaniczna f
• Portuguese: bomba vulcânica f
• Russian: вулканическая бомба (ru) f (vulkaničeskaja bomba)
• Slovene: vulkanska bomba f
• Spanish: bomba volcánica f
• Swedish: vulkanisk bomb
• Turkish: volkan bombası
• Ukrainian: вулканічна бомба f (vulkanična bomba)
• Uzbek: vulqon bombasi
• Vietnamese: bom núi lửa