Noun: fiamma
| Singular | fiamma |
| Plural | fiamme |
Sample Sentences
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[…] black glass from "fiamma" of ignimbrites from Zavaritzkiy caldera in Simushir Is. [1966, Bulletin Volcanologique, page 88:]
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[…] the largest fiamma in the centre of the photograph has responded in a brittle fashion to […] [1993, Jocelyn McPhie, Mark Doyle, Rodney Leslie Allen, Volcanic Textures: A Guide to the Interpretation of Textures, page 135:]
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[…] lenticular "fiamme" of dense black glass. In (d), devitrification has produced radiating spherulites that have grown outward from centers around phenocrysts and across the original shards of glass. [1993, Alexander R. McBirney, Igneous Petrology, page 359:]
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[…] total phenocryst content in fiamme of pyroclastic rocks and in matrix of coherent rhyolitic rocks; data see Tables 1 and 2; (d) aspect ratio v. maximum particle size (mps) of fiamme (note: this diagram shows field measurements not presented in tables […] [2008, Kenneth Thomson, Nick Petford, Structure and Emplacement of High-level Magmatic Systems, page 214:]
Nouns inflected like fiamma
entelechia,
ottavarima,
tagliatella,
braciola,
fioritura,
specchia,
foiba,
zucchina,
frottola,
fiamma,
libbra,
puntarella,
sfogliatella,
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Italian fiamma (“flame”).