Search Result for "mt. vesuvius":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a 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;
[syn: Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius, Mt. Vesuvius]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Mt. Vesuvius n 1: a 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 [syn: Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius, Mt. Vesuvius]