Vesuvius (n.)

  1. a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944

    [ Syn: vesuvius , mount vesuvius , mt. vesuvius ]

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