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]