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 ]
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 ]