vesuvius : Idioms & Phrases


mount vesuvius

  • noun 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
    Mount Vesuvius; Vesuvius.
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mt. vesuvius

  • noun 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
    Mount Vesuvius; Vesuvius.
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