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