HyperDic: mount_vesuvius

English > 1 sense of the expression Mount Vesuvius:
NOUNlocationMount Vesuvius, Vesuvius, Mt. Vesuviusa volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast
English > Mount Vesuvius: 1 sense > noun 1, location
MeaningA volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944.
SynonymsVesuvius, Mt. Vesuvius
Instance ofvolcanoA mountain formed by volcanic material
Part ofItaly, Italian Republic, ItaliaA republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula
SpanishVesubio
CatalanVesuvi

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