| 单词 | vulcanian islands |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVulcanian Islands Vulcanian Islands n. [after classical Latin insulae Volcāniae, plural (Cicero)] now rare the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [noun] > Lipari Islands Vulcanian Islands1621 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 239 The Lesser Ilands dispersed about in this sea are..Vulcanian or Aeolian Ilands. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 57 There are no volcano's in my opinion, that deserve our observation so much, as those that are in and about the Mediterranean Sea; there is a knot of them called the Vulcanian Islands, from their fiery eruptions. 1705 C. Purshall Ess. Mechanism Macrocosm 83 The Vulcanian Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, are said to be of this sort. 1860 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. Mar. 57 The fourth dwelt in the Vulcanian Islands near Sicily. 1922 D. C. Munro Middle Ages v. 51 The Vulcanian islands..burst into eruption on the day when Hannibal took poison at the court of Prusias. < as lemmas |
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