tuff

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   rock formed from compacted or cemented volcanic ash and other fine volcanic fragments

   Layers of pale tuff around the crater recorded several explosive eruptions.

Borrowed through Middle French tuf and Italian tufo from Latin tofus ("porous stone"). The modern geological sense names rock made chiefly from consolidated volcanic ash and other fine ejecta.

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