CALDERA


Meaning of CALDERA in English

/kal der"euh, kawl-/ , n.

a large, basinlike depression resulting from the explosion or collapse of the center of a volcano.

[ 1860-65; Caldera, name of a crater on Canary Islands, lit., cauldron caldaria, n. use of fem. of caldarius of warming; see CALDARIUM ]

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