Definitions for pozzolana

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pozzolana poz·zo·la·na

Spelling: [pot-suh-lah-nuh; Italian pawt-tsaw- Pozzolana is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 32 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in pozzolana (aalnoopzz).

Definitions for pozzolana

noun

1. a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.

Origin of pozzolana

1905-10; Italian Latin puteolāna, feminine of puteolānus of Pozzuoli (Latin Puteolī literally, little springs); see -an

Examples for pozzolana

Not only the walls but the vaults were built in this pozzolana concrete, and formed one solid mass.

This shows the utter unfitness of the pozzolana beds in which the arenaria are excavated for the construction of the Catacombs.