fumarole

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an opening in or near a volcano through which steam and hot gases escape

   Sulfur crystals had formed around the mouth of the fumarole.

Borrowed in the early nineteenth century from Italian fumarola or French fumerolle, ultimately from Late Latin fumariolum, 'smoke vent,' a diminutive related to Latin fumus, 'smoke.'

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