What does "moya" mean?

Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.

What is a synonym for "moya"?

Common synonyms include: mud lava, mud lava, tufaceous mud, volcanic mud.

Moya

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Definitions

Noun

1
Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden."

Proper Noun

1
A surname from Spanish.

Synonyms

All synonyms

mud lava mud lava tufaceous mud volcanic mud

Example

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"These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden."

Etymology

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

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