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- Crater - n. - The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
- Crater - n. - The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
- Crater - n. - A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
- Crateriform - a. - Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.
- Craterous - a. - Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.
- Cone - n. - Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
- Eructation - n. - A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.