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pahoehoe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pahoehoe \Pa*ho"e*ho`e\, n. (Min.) A name given in Hawaii (formerly the Sandwich Islands) to lava having a relatively smooth or billowing surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called aa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ropy lava," 1859, from Hawaiian.
Wiktionary
n. A form of lava flow of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a smooth or ropey surface. It is one of two chief forms of lava flow emitted from volcanoes of the Hawaiian type, the other form being aa.
WordNet
n. freely flowing lava
Usage examples of "pahoehoe".
Here the aa gave way to a sinuous tongue of pahoehoe that was as black and shiny as the day it had cooled after its fiery birth.
It was a startling emerald garden bordered by the scrubby plants and grasses that struggled to conquer the brilliant black of a pahoehoe flow.
The glassy pahoehoe ahead of her once had flowed like burning syrup down the mountainside, filling crevices and hollows.
That hand was reaching down toward the island of pahoehoe where Nicole waited alone.
By now, the tiny spines on the epidermis of the pahoehoe flow had wreaked a spiteful damage on the soles of her boots.