välˈkā(ˌ)nō noun
( plural volcanoes or volcanos )
Etymology: Italian volcano, vulcano, from Latin Volcanus, Vulcanus, Roman god of fire and metalworking represented in Greco-Roman myth as the blacksmith of the gods forging thunderbolts on Mount Etna and other volcanoes
1.
a. : a vent in the earth's crust from which molten or hot rock and steam issue
b. : a more or less conical hill or mountain composed wholly or in part of the material ejected from such a vent and often having a depression or crater at its top
2. : something suggestive of a volcano especially in suppressed force or violence of outbursts
volcanoes of gunfire erupted — Kenneth Roberts
chief of foreign correspondents who can only guess which volcano of international antipathies will erupt next — F.L.Mott
the muttering volcano of … politics shot forth a shower of sparks which all but extinguished the life of his father — Barbara Henderson