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Noun: Plinian eruption
  1. A volcanic eruption in which a stream of gas and ash is violently ejected to a height of several miles

Type of: eruption, volcanic eruption

Encyclopedia: Plinian eruption

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Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
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