volcanic crater
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- noun
- /vɑlˈkænɪk ˈkreɪtər/
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cráter volcánico
- Canyons, ridges, waterfalls, volcanic craters, and deep basins make striking topographic features.
- volcanic crater lake
- largest volcanic craters
That's what I meant, that they're sitting on this crater of volcanic crater of anger, which sometimes bursts out of them.
- That's what I meant, that they're sitting on this crater of volcanic crater of anger, which sometimes bursts out of them.
Examples
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I pictured a volcanic crater, glowing red.
Fiction book (1999) -
On Sunday, June 19, 2011, the waters of the lake that sits in a volcanic crater suddenly changed colors to a whitish-blue shade, followed by the sudden death of thousands of fish (tilapia) living in the lake.
Blog text (11) -
I'd say caprona was a volcanic crater.
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PHOTOS (COLOR): Nestled in a volcanic crater, tiny Lake Nemi was a popular setting for the worship of Diana, the Roman goddess of hunting.
Academic text (2002) -
I sat down in a wing chair and read about Chile's lake district, the volcanic craters, glacial lagos, and waterfalls like wizards' beards.
Fiction book (2000) -
Sandinista artillery practice and weapons training of Salvadoran guerrillas took place inside Cosiguina's volcanic crater, pockmarking the inner slopes.
Academic text (1990) -
Berkeley explains, to account for the circular form of atolls, "Lyell had suggested that the corals colonized the rims of slightly submerged volcanic craters."
Academic text (2009) -
About a mile north of Antipodes Island, Bollons and Archway Islands form two-thirds of a sea-eroded volcanic crater, further evidence of the islands' fiery origins.
Academic text (1995) -
The Danger EISP has recently completed digital mapping of quarries inside Rano Raraku, a volcanic crater on the island's eastern plain, the source of stone from which 95 percent of the moai were carved.
Academic text (2009) -
Ngorongoro is the largest unbroken volcanic crater in the world.
Synonyms
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3.2
A large bowl-shaped hole in the ground made by a meteor or volcano
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9.6
A large bowl-shaped hollow on a volcano that forms when the top collapses after a big eruption
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A broad, shallow volcanic crater often filled with water
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Morphology
The phrase transparently combines 'volcanic' (related to volcanoes) with 'crater' (a bowl-shaped depression), so a learner who knows both words can directly infer it is a bowl-shaped depression associated with a volcano. This is a straightforward noun + adjective composition common across languages and follows standard English compounding patterns, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Volcanic crater gives a simple picture: volcanic means from a volcano and a crater is a bowl-shaped hollow. When a volcano erupts or the top falls in it leaves that bowl, so volcanic crater means 'the bowl-shaped hollow at the top of a volcano'.