Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the crater of a volcano.
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Examples
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With Georgia O'Keeffe one takes a far jump into volcanic crateral ethers, and sees the world of a woman turned inside out and gaping with deep open eyes and fixed mouth at the rather trivial world of living people.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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These repeated throws of cinders, ashes and pumice-stones so much increased the small cone of eruption which had been left in the centre of the flat crateral space that its top became visible at a distance.
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877
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On the 7th of August there issued a small stream of lava from a breach in the side of a small cone; the lava gradually filled the space between the cone and the crateral edge; on the 12th of September it overflowed the crater, and ran down the mountain.
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877
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