Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- An active volcano, about 4,208 m (13,796 ft) high, of north-central Hawaii Island. It is the highest peak in the islands.
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- proper n. A dormant volcano on Hawaii, the tallest mountain in the world from its base on the sea floor.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an active volcano on north central Hawaii Island; highest peak in the Hawaiian Islands
Etymologies
Hawaiian mauna ("mountain") + kea ("white") (Wiktionary)
Examples
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In one story I just read, there was this snow spirit, Poli’ahu, who lived on Mauna Kea and got in a fight with her sister, the volcano spirit, Pele…
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He ran new blowups of films taken by the Mauna Kea telescopes as far back as the late l970s.
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Mauna Kea rose nearly 14,000 feet above the sea -- and plunged 20,000 feet downward to the sea bottom, making it a bigger mountain than Everest.
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When the alien ship came into the solar system almost fifteen years ago, a few telescopes including Mauna Kea happened to be pointed that way ..
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