scoria
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- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
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- 6
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Definition of scoria
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
“The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
“The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.”
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(countable, uncountable)Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.
“To the south lay broken shapes of scoria in a lava bed as far as the eye could see.”
“An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English, from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).
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