Definitions for vesuvians

vesuvians Ve·su·vi·an

Spelling: [vuh-soo-vee-uh n]
IPA: /vəˈsu vi ən/

Vesuvians is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in vesuvians (aeinssuvv).

Definitions for vesuvians

noun

  1. (lowercase) a type of match formerly used for lighting cigars; fusee.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling Mount Vesuvius; volcanic.

Origin of vesuvians

First recorded in 1665-75; Vesuvi(us) + -an

Examples for vesuvians

Sir Humphry Davy observed that the fumes which escaped from Vesuvian lava deposited common salt.

Otherwise the world presents itself to them under too settled an aspect—unless, of course, Vesuvian Revolution shakes the land.

A Vesuvian explosion seemed to heave in his capacious bosom, and found vent in a furious roar.

If I have not lost my mind I have accurately conveyed those two Vesuvian irruptions of philosophy.

Readers will transport themselves to the Bay of Naples, and beautiful Vesuvian scenery seen from sea.

Pratt started, flushed angrily, and brushed the Vesuvian from his coat, but not until it had burned there a round black spot.

Observation on the volcanoes of other districts show that the Vesuvian group is in this regard not peculiar.

Here was Naples deserted by the thousands of foreigners whom a few days of Vesuvian bellowings had frightened into abject panic.

Then—the campaign with its crowds, its enthusiasm, its Vesuvian mutterings.

The name anorthite was given to the Vesuvian mineral by G. Rose in 1823, on account of its anorthic crystallization.

Word Value for vesuvians
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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