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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A volcano, 3,170 m (10,400 ft) high, of west-central Mexico west of Mexico City. It erupted from a cornfield in February 1943 and grew more than 460 m (1,500 ft) in that year alone.

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