pahoehoe

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A very frequent aspect of pahoehoe is the likeness on a magnificent scale of a thick coat of cream drawn in wrinkling folds to the side of a milk-pan.

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  1. noun Lava with a smooth ropy surface.

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  • With a good-natured singsong having something to do with vultures and fudge, the alien followed the two men across the glowing pahoehoe. —  The End of The Matter
  • Nothing but black lava'mostly solidified ropy pahoehoe, with a sprinkling of dangerously sharp a'a. —  The Chronicles of Riddick
  • A very frequent aspect of pahoehoe is the likeness on a magnificent scale of a thick coat of cream drawn in wrinkling folds to the side of a milk-pan. —  The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • But beyond this lie ten miles of pahoehoe, the lava-flows of ages, with only now and then the vestige of a trail. —  The Hawaiian Archipelago
 

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  1. Hawaiian pāhoehoe : pā-, pref. + hoehoe, reduplication of hoe, to paddle (probably from the swirls on its surface).

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/ (pə-hoiˈhoiˌ)/
ahd pronounces "pahoehoe"
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